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<text id=93CT1292>
<title>
Sri Lanka--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Sri Lanka
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing dominate the
economy, employing half of the labor force and accounting for
one quarter of GDP. The plantation crops of tea, rubber, and
coconuts provide about one-third of export earnings. The economy
has been plagued by high rates of unemployment since the late
1970s. Economic growth, which has been depressed by ethnic
unrest, accelerated in 1991-92 as domestic conditions began to
improve and conditions for foreign investment brightened.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $7.75
billion (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 4.5% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $440 (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10% (1992)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 15% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $2.0 billion; expenditures $3.7 billion,
including capital expenditures of $500 million (1992)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $2.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: textiles and garments, teas, petroleum
products, coconuts, rubber, other agricultural products, gems
and jewelry, marine products, graphite</l>
<l> partners: US 27.4%, Germany, Japan, UK, Belgium, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, China</l>
<l>Imports: $3.1 billion (c.i.f., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: food and beverages, textiles and textile
materials, petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and
equipment</l>
<l> partners: Japan, Iran, US 5.7%, India, Taiwan, Singapore,
Germany, UK</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $5.7 billion (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 7% (1991 est.); accounts
for 20% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 1,300,000 kW capacity; 3,600 million kWh
produced, 200 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: processing of rubber, tea, coconuts, and other
agricultural commodities; cement, petroleum refining, textiles,
tobacco, clothing
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 26% of GDP and nearly half of labor
force; most important staple crop is paddy rice; other field
crops - sugarcane, grains, pulses, oilseeds, roots, spices; cash
crops - tea, rubber, coconuts; animal products - milk, eggs,
hides, meat; not self-sufficient in rice production
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.0
billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1980-89), $5.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid
(1979-89), $169 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $369
million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Sri Lankan rupee (SLRe)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Sri Lankan rupees (SLRes) per US$1 - 46.342
(January 1993), 43.687 (1992), 41.372 (1991), 40.063 (1990),
36.047 (1989), 31.807 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>