: 28.5%
services: 18.5% (1990)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 240% (1996 est.)

Labor force: 7.1 million

Labor force--by occupation: agriculture and animal husbandry
67.8%, industry 10.2%, construction 6.3%, commerce 5%, services and
other 10.7% (1980 est.)

Unemployment rate: 8% (1995 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Industries: small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture,
shoes, fertilizer, and cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, oil,
coal, copper

Electricity--production: 540 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 35.19%
hydro: 64.81%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 660 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996) (1996)

Electricity--imports: 120 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: wheat, fruits, nuts, karakul pelts; wool,
mutton

Exports: $80 million (1996 est.)

Exports--commodities: fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool,
cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems

Exports--partners: FSU, Pakistan, Iran, Germany, India, UK,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Czech Republic

Imports: $150 million (1996 est.)

Imports--commodities: food and petroleum products; most consumer
goods

Imports--partners: FSU, Pakistan, Iran, Japan, Singapore, India,
South Korea, Germany

Debt--external: $2.3 billion (March 1991 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $214.6 million (1995); note?US provided
$450 million in bilateral assistance (1985-93); US continues to
contribute to multilateral assistance through the UN programs of
food aid, immunization, land mine removal, and a wide range of aid
to refugees and displaced persons

Currency: 1 afghani (AF) = 100 puls

Exchange rates: afghanis (Af) per US$1--4,750 (February 1999),
17,000 (December 1996), 7,000 (January 1995), 1,900 (January 1994),
1,019 (March 1993), 850 (1991); note--these rates reflect the free
market exchange rates rather than the official exchange rate, which
was fixed at 50.600 afghanis to the dollar until 1996, when it rose
to 2,262.65 per dollar, and finally became fixed again at 3,000.00
per dollar on April 1996

Fiscal year: 21 March--20 March

Communications

Telephones: 31,200 (1983 est.)

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