ly implemented. The government's continued prosecution of the
civil war and its growing international isolation continued to inhibit
growth in the nonagricultural sectors of the economy during 1997.
Hyperinflation has raised consumer prices above the reach of most. In
1997, a top priority was to develop potentially lucrative oilfields in
south-central Sudan; the government was seeking foreign partners to
exploit the oil sector.

GDP: purchasing power parity-$26.6 billion (1997 est.)

GDP-real growth rate: 5% (1997 est.)

GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$875 (1997 est.)

GDP-composition by sector:
agriculture: 33%
industry: 17%
services: 50% (1992 est.)

Inflation rate-consumer price index: 27% (mid-1997 est.)

Labor force:
total: 11 million (1996 est.)
by occupation: agriculture 80%, industry and commerce 10%, government
6%
note: labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment
(1983 est.)

Unemployment rate: 30% (FY92/93 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $482 million
expenditures: $1.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $30
million (1996)

Industries: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap
distilling, shoes, petroleum refining

Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1996 est.)

Electricity-capacity: 500,000 kW (1995)

Electricity-production: 1.305 billion kWh (1995)

Electricity-consumption per capita: 43 kWh (1995)

Agriculture-products: cotton, groundnuts, sorghum, millet, wheat, gum
arabic, sesame; sheep

Exports:
total value: $620 million (f.o.b., 1996)
commodities: cotton 23%, sesame 22%, livestock/meat 13%, gum arabic 5%
(1996)
partners: Saudi Arabia 20%, UK 14%, China 11%, Italy 8% (1996)

Imports:
total value: $1.5 billion (1996)
commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum products, manufactured goods,
machinery and equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles (1996)
partners: Saudi Arabia 10%, South Korea 7%, Germany 6%, Egypt 6%
(1996)

Debt-external: $20.3 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $387 million (1993)

Currency: 1 Sudanese pound (LSd) = 100 piastres

Exchange rates: Sudanese pounds (LSd) per US$1-official rate: 1,602.70
(July 1997), 1,250.79 (1996), 580.87 (1995), 289.61 (1994), 159.31
(1993); market rate: 1,612.90 (July 1997), 1,250.79 (1996), 571.02
(August 1995), 289.61 (1994), 159.31 (1993), 97.43 (1992)
note: the market rate is a unified exchange rate determined by a
committee of local bankers, without officia