nia's deteriorated economic infrastructure. Growth in
1991-2001 featured a pickup in industrial production and a substantial
increase in output of minerals, led by gold. Natural gas exploration
in the Rufiji Delta looks promising and production could start by
2002. Recent banking reforms have helped increase private sector growth
and investment. Continued donor support and solid macroeconomic policies
should support steady real GDP growth of 5% in 2002 and 2003.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $22.1 billion (2001 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 5% (2001 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $610 (2001 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 48.4% industry: 16.7% services:
34.9% (2000 est.)

Population below poverty line: 51.1% (1991 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 30.1% (1993)

Distribution of family income - Gini index: 38.2 (1993)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (2001 est.)

Labor force: 13.495 million

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 80%, industry and services 20%
(2000 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget: revenues: $1.01 billion expenditures: $1.38 billion, including
capital expenditures of $NA (FY00/01 est.)

Industries: primarily agricultural processing (sugar, beer, cigarettes,
sisal twine), diamond and gold mining, oil refining, shoes, cement,
textiles, wood products, fertilizer, salt

Industrial production growth rate: 8.4% (1999 est.)

Electricity - production: 2.765 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 18.08% hydro: 81.92%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 2.616 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 45 million kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: coffee, sisal, tea, cotton, pyrethrum
(insecticide made from chrysanthemums), cashew nuts, tobacco, cloves
(Zanzibar), corn, wheat, cassava (tapioca), bananas, fruits, vegetables;
cattle, sheep, goats

Exports: $827 million (f.o.b., 2001)

Exports - commodities: gold, coffee, cashew nuts, manufactures, cotton
(2000)

Exports - partners: UK 22.0%, India 14.8%, Germany 9.9%, Netherlands 6.9%
(2000)

Imports: $1.55 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Imports - commodities: consumer goods, machinery and transportation
equipment, industrial raw materials, crude oil

Imports - partners: South Africa 11.5%, Japan 9.3%, UK 7.0%, Australia