agriculture and trading,
with most private industrial investment predating 1980. Agriculture
employs 80% of the work force. Industry mainly processes agricultural
items. Sluggish economic performance over the past decade,
attributable largely to declining annual rainfall, has kept per capita
income at low levels. A large foreign debt and huge arrears continue
to cause difficulties. In 1990 the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
took the unusual step of declaring Sudan noncooperative because of its
nonpayment of arrears to the Fund. After Sudan backtracked on promised
reforms in 1992-93, the IMF threatened to expel Sudan from the Fund.
To avoid expulsion, Khartoum agreed to make token payments on its
arrears to the Fund, liberalize exchange rates, and reduce subsidies,
measures it has partially implemented. The government's continued
prosecution of the civil war and its growing international isolation
continued to inhibit growth in the nonagricultural sectors of the
economy during 1999. The government has worked with foreign partners
to develop the oil sector, and the country is producing approximately
150,000 barrels per day.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $32.6 billion (1999 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 3% (1999 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $940 (1999 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 41%
industry: 17%
services: 42% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 20% (1999 est.)

Labor force: 11 million (1996 est.)
note: labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment
(1983 est.)

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 80%, industry and commerce
10%, government 6%, unemployed 4%

Unemployment rate: 30% (FY92/93 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.2 billion
expenditures: $1.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(2000 est.)

Industries: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap
distilling, shoes, petroleum refining

Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1996 est.)

Electricity - production: 1.815 billion kWh (1998)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 44.9%
hydro: 55.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)

Electricity - consumption: 1.688 billion kWh (1998)

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)

Agriculture - products: cotton, groundnuts (peanuts),