st.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.2% (1997 est.)

Labor force: 850,000 (1997 est.)

Labor force--by occupation: NA

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $4 billion
expenditures: $5.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1999 budget est.)

Industries: crude oil production and refining, natural gas
production, construction, cement, copper

Industrial production growth rate: 2% (1997 est.)

Electricity--production: 8 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 8 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: dates, limes, bananas, alfalfa, vegetables;
camels, cattle; fish

Exports: $7.6 billion (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: petroleum, reexports, fish, metals, textiles

Exports--partners: Japan 26%, China 19%, Thailand 19%, South Korea
14%, US 4% (1997)

Imports: $4 billion (f.o.b., 1997)

Imports--commodities: machinery, transportation equipment,
manufactured goods, food, livestock, lubricants

Imports--partners: UAE 23% (largely reexports), Japan 16%, UK 14%,
US 8%, Germany 5% (1997)

Debt--external: $3 billion (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $76.4 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Omani rial (RO) = 1,000 baiza

Exchange rates: Omani rials (RO) per US$1--0.3845 (fixed rate
since 1986)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 150,000 (1994 est.)

Telephone system: modern system consisting of open wire,
microwave, and radiotelephone communication stations; limited
coaxial cable
domestic: open wire, microwave, radiotelephone communications, and a
domestic satellite system with 8 earth stations
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
and 1 Arabsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 1

Radios: 1.043 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 13 (in addition, there are 25
low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 1.195 million (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 32,800 km
paved: 9,840 km (including 550 km of expressways)
unpaved: 22,960 km (1996 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 1,300 km; natural gas 1,03