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<text id=93CT1316>
<title>
Swaziland--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Swaziland
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: The economy is based on subsistence agriculture,
which occupies most of the labor force and contributes nearly
25% to GDP. Manufacturing, which includes a number of
agroprocessing factories, accounts for another quarter of GDP.
Mining has declined in importance in recent years; high-grade
iron ore deposits were depleted in 1978, and health concerns cut
world demand for asbestos. Exports of sugar and forestry
products are the main earners of hard currency. Surrounded by
South Africa, except for a short border with Mozambique,
Swaziland is heavily dependent on South Africa, from which it
receives 75% of its imports and to which it sends about half of
its exports.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $700
million (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 2.5% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $800 (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 13% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $342 million; expenditures $410 million,
including capital expenditures of $130 million (FY94 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $575 million (f.o.b., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp,
citrus, canned fruit</l>
<l> partners: South Africa 50% (est.), EC countries, Canada</l>
<l>Imports: $730 million (c.i.f., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: motor vehicles, machinery, transport
equipment, petroleum products, foodstuffs, chemicals</l>
<l> partners: South Africa 75% (est.), Japan, Belgium, UK</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $290 million (1990)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%; accounts for 26% of
GDP (1989)
</p>
<p>Electricity: 60,000 kW capacity; 155 million kWh produced, 180
kWh per capita (1991)
</p>
<p>Industries: mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 23% of GDP and over 60% of labor
force; mostly subsistence agriculture; cash crops - sugarcane,
cotton, maize, tobacco, rice, citrus fruit, pineapples; other
crops and livestock - corn, sorghum, peanuts, cattle, goats,
sheep; not self-sufficient in grain
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $142
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $518 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 lilangeni (E)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: emalangeni (E) per US$1 -3.1576 (May 1993),
2.8497 (1992), 2.7563 (1991), 2.5863 (1990), 2.6166 (1989),
2.2611 (1988); note - the Swazi emalangeni is at par with the
South African rand
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
</p></body></article></text>