st.)

Industries: food, beverages, textiles, chemicals, metal products,
tourism, wood products

Industrial production growth rate: Greek Cypriot area: -4%
(1996); Turkish Cypriot area: 5.1% (1995)

Electricity--production: 2.2 billion kWh (1996)

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

Electricity--consumption: 2.2 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: potatoes, citrus, vegetables, barley,
grapes, olives, vegetables

Exports: Greek Cypriot area: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.);
Turkish Cypriot area: $70.5 million (f.o.b., 1996)

Exports--commodities: Greek Cypriot area: citrus, potatoes,
grapes, wine, cement, clothing and shoes (1996); Turkish Cypriot
area: citrus, potatoes, textiles (1996)

Exports--partners: Greek Cypriot area: Russia 19.1%, Bulgaria
16.4%, UK 11.3%, Greece 6.3%, Germany 4.8%; Turkish Cypriot area:
Turkey 48.2%, UK 21.3%, other EU 13.7% (1997)

Imports: Greek Cypriot area: $3.8 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.);
Turkish Cypriot area: $318.4 million (f.o.b., 1996)

Imports--commodities: Greek Cypriot area: consumer goods,
petroleum and lubricants, food and feed grains, machinery (1996);
Turkish Cypriot area: food, minerals, chemicals, machinery (1996)

Imports--partners: Greek Cypriot area: US 17.8%, UK 11.9%, Italy
9.7%, Germany 7.5%, Greece 7.6% (1997); Turkish Cypriot area: Turkey
55.3%, UK 13.8%, other EU 11.6% (1997)

Debt--external: Greek Cypriot area: $1.56 billion (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: Greek Cypriot area?$187 million in grants
(1990-94); Turkish Cypriot area-- $700 million from Turkey in grants
and loans (1990-97) that are usually forgiven

Currency: Greek Cypriot area: 1 Cypriot pound (LC) = 100 cents;
Turkish Cypriot area: 1 Turkish lira (TL) = 100 kurus

Exchange rates: Cypriot pounds per US1$--0.5013 (January 1999),
0.5170 (1998), 0.5135 (1997), 0.4663 (1996), 0.4522 (1995), 0.4915
(1994); Turkish liras (TL) per US$1--331,400 (January 1999), 260,724
(1998), 151,865 (1997), 81,405 (1996), 45,845.1 (1995), 29,608.7
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: Greek Cypriot area: 367,000 (1996 est.); Turkish
Cypriot area: 80,000 (1996 est.)

Telephone system: excellent in both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish
Cypriot areas
domestic: open wire, fiber-