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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,
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