n
January 1991, but full implementation has been slowed by continuing
political disputes.

_#_GNP: $47.3 billion, per capita $5,300; real growth rate - 6.0%
(1990)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 100% (1990 est.)

_#_Unemployment rate: 2% (1990 est.)

_#_Budget: revenues $26 billion; expenditures $28 billion,
including capital expenditures of $NA billion (1988)

_#_Exports: $16.0 billion (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities--machinery and equipment 60.5%; agricultural products
14.7%; manufactured consumer goods 10.6%; fuels, minerals, raw materials,
and metals 8.5%; other 5.7%;

partners--Communist countries 82.5% (USSR 61%, GDR 5.5%,
Czechoslovakia 4.9%); developed countries 6.8% (FRG 1.2%, Greece 1.0%);
less developed countries 10.7% (Libya 3.5%, Iraq 2.9%)

_#_Imports: $15.0 billion (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities--fuels, minerals, and raw materials 45.2%; machinery
and equipment 39.8%; manufactured consumer goods 4.6%; agricultural
products 3.8%; other 6.6%;

partners--Communist countries 80.5% (USSR 57.5%, GDR 5.7%),
developed countries 15.1% (FRG 4.8%, Austria 1.6%); less developed
countries 4.4% (Libya 1.0%, Brazil 0.9%)

_#_External debt: $10 billion (1990)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 10.7% (1990); accounts for
about 50% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 11,500,000 kW capacity; 45,000 million kWh produced,
5,040 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: machine and metal building,food processing, chemicals,
textiles, building materials, ferrous and nonferrous metals

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 15% of GNP; climate and soil conditions
support livestock raising and the growing of various grain crops,
oilseeds, vegetables, fruits and tobacco; more than one-third of the
arable land devoted to grain; world's fourth-largest tobacco exporter;
surplus food producer

_#_Economic aid: donor--$1.6 billion in bilateral aid to non-Communist
less developed countries (1956-89)

_#_Currency: lev (plural--leva); 1 lev (Lv) = 100 stotinki

_#_Exchange rates: leva (Lv) per US$1--16.13 (March 1991),
0.7446 (November 1990), 0.84 (1989), 0.82 (1988), 0.90 (1987), 0.95
(1986), 1.03 (1985); note--floating exchange rate since February 1990

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 4,300 km total, all government owned (1987); 4,055 km
1.435-meter standard gauge, 245 km narrow gauge; 917 km double track;
2,510 km electrified

_#_Highways: 36,908 km total; 33,