ndustry, providing a
vital offset to the sizable commodity trade deficit.

_#_GDP: $76.7 billion, per capita $7,650; real growth rate 0.9%
(1990)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 19.0% (1990)

_#_Unemployment rate: 9.0% (1989)

_#_Budget: revenues $20.9 billion; expenditures $34.1 billion,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1990)

_#_Exports: $9.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990);

commodities--manufactured goods, food and live animals, fuels and
lubricants, raw materials;

partners--FRG 20%, Italy 17%, France 8%, UK 7%, US 6%

_#_Imports: $20.2 billion (c.i.f., 1990);

commodities--machinery and transport equipment, light manufactures,
fuels and lubricants, foodstuffs, chemicals;

partners--FRG 21%, Italy 16%, France 8%, Netherlands 7%, UK 6%

_#_External debt: $18.7 billion (1989)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 1.0% (1990 est.); accounts
for 22% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 10,500,000 kW capacity; 36,420 million kWh produced,
3,630 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal
products, tourism, mining, petroleum

_#_Agriculture: including fishing and forestry, accounts for 13% of
GNP and 27% of the labor force; principal products--wheat, corn, barley,
sugar beets, olives, tomatoes, wine, tobacco, potatoes, beef, mutton,
pork, dairy products; self-sufficient in food; fish catch of 135,000
metric tons in 1987

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-81), $525
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $1.35 billion

_#_Currency: drachma (plural--drachmas); 1 drachma (Dr) = 100 lepta

_#_Exchange rates: drachma (Dr) per US$1--159.87 (January 1991),
158.51 (1990), 162.42 (1989), 141.86 (1988), 135.43 (1987), 139.98
(1986), 138.12 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 2,479 km total; 1,565 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, of
which 36 km electrified and 100 km double track, 892 km 1.000-meter
gauge; 22 km 0.750-meter narrow gauge; all government owned

_#_Highways: 38,938 km total; 16,090 km paved, 13,676 km crushed stone
and gravel, 5,632 km improved earth, 3,540 km unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: 80 km; system consists of three coastal canals
and three unconnected rivers

_#_Pipelines: crude oil, 26 km; refined products, 547 km

_#_Ports: Piraeus, Thessaloniki

_#_Merchant marine: 958 ships (1,000 GRT or