ly
$8,700 in 1990.
_#_GDP: $1,157.2 billion, per capita $14,600; real growth rate 1.7%
(1990)
_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices):
West--3.0% (1989);
East--0.8% (1989)
_#_Unemployment rate:
West--7.1% (1990);
East--1% (1989); 3% (first half, 1990)
_#_Budget:
West--revenues $539 billion; expenditures $563 billion, including
capital expenditures of $11.5 billion (1988);
East--revenues $147.0 billion; expenditures $153.4 billion, including
capital expenditures of $NA (1988)
_#_Exports:
West--$324.3 billion (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities--manufactures 86.6% (including machines and machine
tools, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel products),
agricultural products 4.9%, raw materials 2.3%, fuels 1.3%;
partners--EC 52.7% (France 12%, Netherlands 9%, Italy 9%, UK 9%,
Belgium-Luxembourg 7%), other West Europe 18%, US 10%, Eastern
Europe 4%, OPEC 3% (1987);
East--$32.4 billion (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities--machinery and transport equipment 47%, fuels and
metals 16%, consumer goods 16%, chemical products and building
materials 13%, semimanufactured goods and processed foodstuffs 8%;
partners--USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, FRG, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Switzerland, Romania, EC, US (1989)
_#_Imports:
West--$247.7 billion (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities--manufactures 68.5%, agricultural products 12.0%,
fuels 9.7%, raw materials 7.1%;
partners--EC 52.7% (France 12%, Netherlands 11%, Italy 10%, UK 7%,
Belgium-Luxembourg 7%), other West Europe 15%, US 6%, Japan 6%, Eastern
Europe 5%, OPEC 3% (1987);
East--$30.0 billion (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities--fuels and metals 40%, machinery and transport
equipment 29%, chemical products and building materials 9%;
partners--USSR and Eastern Europe 65%, FRG 12.7%, EC 6.0%,
US 0.3% (1989)
_#_External debt:
West--$500 million (June 1988);
East--$20.6 billion (1989)
_#_Industrial production: growth rates, West--3.3% (1988);
East--2.7% (1989 est.)
_#_Electricity: 133,000,000 kW capacity; 580,000 million kWh produced,
7,390 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries:
West--among world's largest producers of iron, steel, coal, cement,
chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics;
food and beverages;
East--metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding, machine
building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum
_#_Agriculture:
West--accounts for about 2% of GDP (including fishing and forestry);
diversified crop and
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