for all medical
services and subsidizes food and housing. The government is
beginning to show progress on its basic policy of diversifying the
economy away from oil and gas. Brunei's leaders are concerned that
steadily increased integration in the world economy will undermine
internal social cohesion. Because of low world oil prices and the
Asian crisis, growth in 1999 is expected to be moderate.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$5.4 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: -1% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$17,000 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 5%
industry: 46%
services: 49% (1996 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2% (1997 est.)

Labor force: 144,000 (1995 est.); note--includes foreign workers
and military personnel
note: temporary residents make up 41% of labor force (1991)

Labor force--by occupation: government 48%, production of oil,
natural gas, services, and construction 42%, agriculture, forestry,
and fishing 4%, other 6% (1986 est.)

Unemployment rate: 4.8% (1994 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.5 billion
expenditures: $2.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $768
million (1995 est.)

Industries: petroleum, petroleum refining, liquefied natural gas,
construction

Industrial production growth rate: 4% (1997 est.)

Electricity--production: 1.48 billion kWh (1996)

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

Electricity--consumption: 1.48 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: rice, cassava (tapioca), bananas; water
buffalo

Exports: $2.62 billion (f.o.b., 1996 est.)

Exports--commodities: crude oil, liquefied natural gas, petroleum
products

Exports--partners: ASEAN 31%, Japan 27%, South Korea 26%, UK,
Taiwan (1996 est.)

Imports: $2.65 billion (c.i.f., 1996 est.)

Imports--commodities: machinery and transport equipment,
manufactured goods, food, chemicals

Imports--partners: Singapore 29%, UK 19%, US 13%, Malaysia 9%,
Japan 5% (1994 est.)

Debt--external: $0

Economic aid--recipient: $4.3 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Bruneian dollar (B$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Bruneian dollars (B$) per US$1--1.6781 (Janua