verty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 60% (2001 est.)

Labor force: 4.4 million (1989)

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures
of $NA

Industries: petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials,
food processing

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity - production: 27.3 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 98.17% hydro: 1.83%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 25.389 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, cotton;
cattle, sheep

Exports: $15.8 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Exports - commodities: crude oil

Exports - partners: US 46.2%, Italy 12.2%, France 9.6%, Spain 8.6% (2000)

Imports: $11 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: food, medicine, manufactures

Imports - partners: France 22.5%, Australia 22%, China 5.8%, Russia 5.8%
(2000)

Debt - external: $62.2 billion (2001 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $327.5 million (1995)

Currency: Iraqi dinar (IQD)

Currency code: IQD

Exchange rates: Iraqi dinars per US dollar - 0.3109 (fixed official
rate since 1982); black market rate - Iraqi dinars per US dollar - 2,000
(December 2001), 1,910 (December 1999), 1,815 (December 1998), 1,530
(December 1997), 910 (December 1996); note - subject to wide fluctuations

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Iraq

Telephones - main lines in use: 675,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular: NA; service available in northern Iraq
(2001)

Telephone system: general assessment: reconstitution of damaged
telecommunication facilities began after the Gulf war; most damaged
facilities have been rebuilt domestic: the network consists of coaxial
cables and microwave radio relay links international: satellite
earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean),
1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Arabsat (inoperative);
coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and
Turkey; Kuwait line is probably nonoperational

Radio broadcast stations: AM 19 (5 are inactive), FM 51, shortwave 4
(1998)

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