workers in South African mines supplement
domestically earned income by as much as 20%. The government is
trying to improve the atmosphere for foreign investment.
Overgrazing, soil depletion, and drought persist as problems for the
future.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$4 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 2.6% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$4,200 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 10%
industry: 42%
services: 48% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8% (1998)

Labor force: NA

Labor force--by occupation: private sector about 70%, public
sector about 30%

Unemployment rate: 22% (1995 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $400 million
expenditures: $450 million, including capital expenditures of $115
million (FY96/97)

Industries: mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft
drink concentrates

Industrial production growth rate: 3.7% (FY95/96)

Electricity--production: 415 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 49.4%
hydro: 50.6%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 986 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 571 million kWh (1996)
note: imports about 60% of its electricity from South Africa

Agriculture--products: sugarcane, cotton, maize, tobacco, rice,
citrus, pineapples, corn, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep

Exports: $972 million (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp,
cotton yarn, citrus and canned fruit (1996)

Exports--partners: South Africa 58%, EU 17%, Mozambique, North
Korea (1995)

Imports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: motor vehicles, machinery, transport
equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals (1996)

Imports--partners: South Africa 96%, Japan, UK, Singapore (FY95/96)

Debt--external: $175 million (1998)

Economic aid--recipient: $55 million (1995)

Currency: 1 lilangeni (E) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: emalangeni (E) per US$1--5.9812 (January 1999),
5.4807 (1998), 4.6032 (1997), 4.2706 (1996), 3.6266 (1995), 3.5490
(1994); note--the Swazi lilangeni is at par with the South African
rand

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: NA; 45,00