agriculture: 4%
industry: 23%
services: 73% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 1 million
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers
(1996 est.)

Labor force--by occupation: services 62%, industry 31%,
agriculture 7% (1997 est.)

Unemployment rate: 18% (1997 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $4.9 billion
expenditures: $7.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1998 est.)

Industries: banking; food processing; jewelry; cement; textiles;
mineral and chemical products; wood and furniture products; oil
refining; metal fabricating

Industrial production growth rate: 25% (1993 est.)

Electricity--production: 8.4 billion kWh (1997 est.)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 87.72%
hydro: 12.28%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 6.01 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 310 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples,
vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco, hemp (hashish); sheep, goats

Exports: $711 million (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: foodstuffs and tobacco 20%, textiles 12%,
chemicals 11%, metal and metal products 11%, electrical equipment
and products 10%, jewelry 10%, paper and paper products 8% (1997)

Exports--partners: Saudi Arabia 14%, UAE 9%, France 7%, Syria 6%,
US 6%, Kuwait 4%, Jordan 4%, Turkey 4%

Imports: $7.5 billion (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: foodstuffs 29%, machinery and transport
equipment 28%, consumer goods 18%, chemicals 9%, textiles 5%, metals
5%, fuels 3%, agricultural foods 3% (1997)

Imports--partners: Italy 13%, US 9%, France 9%, Germany 8%,
Switzerland 7%, Japan 4%, UK 4%, Syria 4% (1997)

Debt--external: $3 billion (1998 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $3.5 billion (pledges 1997-2001)

Currency: 1 Lebanese pound (LL) = 100 piasters

Exchange rates: Lebanese pounds (LL) per US$1--1,508.0 (January
1999), 1,516.1 (1998), 1,539.5 (1997), 1,571.4 (1996), 1,621.4
(1995), 1,680.1 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 150,000 (1990 est.)

Telephone system: telecommunications system severely damaged by
civil war; rebuilding well underway
domestic: primarily microwave