expenditures: $682 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996 est.)

Industries: petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield
equipment; steel, iron ore, cement; chemicals and petrochemicals;
textiles

Industrial production growth rate: 3% (1999 est.)

Electricity - production: 18.062 billion kWh (1999)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 90.98%
hydro: 9.02%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)

Electricity - consumption: 15.508 billion kWh (1998)

Electricity - exports: 1 billion kWh (1998)

Electricity - imports: 1.2 billion kWh (1998)

Agriculture - products: cotton, grain, rice, grapes, fruit,
vegetables, tea, tobacco; cattle, pigs, sheep, goats

Exports: $885 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)

Exports - commodities: oil and gas 70%, machinery, cotton, foodstuffs

Exports - partners: Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Italy, Iran

Imports: $1.62 billion (c.i.f., 1999 est.)

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, metals,
chemicals

Imports - partners: Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, UAE, Iran

Debt - external: $684 million (1998)

Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $113 million (1996)

Currency: 1 manat = 100 gopiks

Exchange rates: manats per US$1 - 4,342 (October 1999), 4,373 (1999),
3,869 (1998), 3,985.38 (1997), 4,301.26 (1996), 4,413.54 (1995)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Azerbaijan:Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 640,000 (1995)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 6,000 (1995)

Telephone system: Azerbaijan's telephone system is a combination of
old Soviet era technology used by Azerbaijani citizens and small- to
medium-size commercial establishments, and modern cellular telephones
used by an increasing middle class, large commercial ventures,
international companies, and most government officials; the average
citizen waits on a 200,000-person list for telephone service; Internet
and e-mail service are available in Baku
domestic: local - the majority of telephones are in Baku or other
industrial centers - about 700 villages still do not have public
telephone service; intercity; all long distance service must use
Azertel's (Ministry of Communications) lines; satellite service
connects Baku to a modern switch in its separated enclave of Naxcivan
international: the old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still
serviceable; satellite service between Baku and Turkey provides access
to 200 countries; additional satellite providers supply services