1990 est.)

Unemployment rate: 10% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $20 billion
expenditures: $20.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $4.4
billion (FY97/98)

Industries: textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals,
petroleum, construction, cement, metals

Industrial production growth rate: 9.4% (1997 est.)

Electricity--production: 46 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 76.09%
hydro: 23.91%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 46 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits,
vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats; fish

Exports: $5.5 billion (f.o.b., FY97/98 est.)

Exports--commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, cotton
yarn, raw cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals

Exports--partners: EU, US, Japan

Imports: $16.7 billion (c.i.f., FY97/98 est.)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment, foods, fertilizers,
wood products, durable consumer goods, capital goods

Imports--partners: US, EU, Japan

Debt--external: $28 billion (FY97/98 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: ODA, $2.4 billion (1996)

Currency: 1 Egyptian pound (LE) = 100 piasters

Exchange rates: Egyptian pounds (LE) per US$1--3.4 (November
1994); market rate--3.3880 (January 1999), 3.3880 (1998), 3.3880
(1997), 3.3880 (1996), 3.3900 (1995), 3.3910 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 3.168 million (1996); 70,000 digital cellular
telephone subscribers (1998); 7,400 analog cellular telephone
subscribers (1997)

Telephone system: large system by Third World standards but
inadequate for present requirements and undergoing extensive
upgrading
domestic: principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah,
Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and
microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean
and Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat; 5 coaxial submarine
cables; tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to
Israel; participant in Medarabtel

Radio broadcast stations: AM 57, FM 14, shortwave 3 (1998 est.)

Radios: 16.45 million (1998 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 42 (in addition, there are nine
channels received from Europe by satellite) (1997)

Televisions: 5 million