Unemployment rate: NA

Budget:
revenues: $402 million
expenditures: $799 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997 est.)

Industries: food, beverages, chemicals (fertilizer, soap,
paints), petroleum products, textiles, cement, glass, asbestos,
tobacco

Industrial production growth rate: 39% (1997)

Electricity--production: 426 million kWh (1997)

Electricity--production by source: NA%

Electricity--consumption: 1.11 billion kWh (1997)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 685.6 million kWh (1997)

Agriculture--products: cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea,
cassava (tapioca), corn, rice, tropical fruits; beef, poultry

Exports: $295 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: shrimp 40%, cashews, cotton, sugar, copra,
citrus (1997)

Exports--partners: Spain 17%, South Africa 16%, Portugal 12%, US
10%, Japan, Malawi, India, Zimbabwe (1996 est.)

Imports: $965 million (c.i.f., 1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: food, clothing, farm equipment, petroleum
(1997)

Imports--partners: South Africa 55%, Zimbabwe 7%, Saudi Arabia 5%,
Portugal 4%, US, Japan, India (1996 est.)

Debt--external: $5.7 billion (December 1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $1.115 billion (1995)

Currency: 1 metical (Mt) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: meticais (Mt) per US$1--12,394.0 (January 1999),
11,874.6 (1998), 11.543.6 (1997), 11,293.8 (1996), 9,024.3 (1995),
6,038.6 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 70,000 (1998 est.)

Telephone system: fair system of tropospheric scatter, open-wire
lines, and microwave radio relay
domestic: microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
international: satellite earth stations--5 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean
and 3 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 29, FM 4, shortwave 0

Radios: 700,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

Televisions: 44,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 3,131 km
narrow gauge: 2,988 km 1.067-m gauge; 143 km 0.762-m gauge (1994)

Highways:
total: 30,400 km
paved: 5,685 km
unpaved: 24,715 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: about 3,750 km of navigable routes

Pipelines: crude oil 306 km; petroleum products 289 km
note: not operating

Ports and harbors: Beira, Inhambane, Maputo, Nacala, Pemba,
Quelimane

Merchant marine:
total: 3 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,125 GRT/7,024