Labor force: 591,773 (June 1994)

Labor force--by occupation: manufacturing and mining 40% (1992)

Unemployment rate: 30% (1998 est.); note--many employed workers
are, in fact, furloughees

Budget:
revenues: $1.06 billion
expenditures: $1 billion, including capital expenditures of $107
million (1996 est.)

Industries: coal, metallic chromium, lead, zinc, ferronickel,
textiles, wood products, tobacco

Industrial production growth rate: 3.4% (1997 est.)

Electricity--production: 6.06 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 80.2%
hydro: 19.8%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 6.06 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: rice, tobacco, wheat, corn, millet, cotton,
sesame, mulberry leaves, citrus, vegetables; beef, pork, poultry,
mutton

Exports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: food, beverages, tobacco 17.0%, machinery
and transport equipment 13.3%, other manufactured goods 58%

Exports--partners: Bulgaria, other former Yugoslav republics,
Germany, Italy

Imports: $1.6 billion (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment 19%, chemicals 14%,
fuels 12%

Imports--partners: other former Yugoslav republics, Germany,
Bulgaria, Italy, Austria

Debt--external: $1.06 billion (June 1997)

Economic aid--recipient: ODA, $100 million (1996 est.)

Currency: 1 Macedonian denar (MKD) = 100 deni

Exchange rates: denars per US$1--52.156 (January 1999), 54.462
(1998), 50.004 (1997), 39.981 (1996), 37.882 (1995), 43.263 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 125,000

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 2, shortwave 0

Radios: 350,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 136 (of which 22 are main stations
and 114 are low-power stations) (1997)

Televisions: 327,011 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 922 km
standard gauge: 922 km 1.435-m gauge (232 km electrified) (1997)

Highways:
total: 10,591 km
paved: 5,500 km (including 133 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,091 km (1997 est.)

Waterways: none, lake transport only

Pipelines: 0 km

Ports and harbors: none

Airports: 16 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 10
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
under 914 m: 8 (1998 e