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<text id=93CT1370>
<title>
Tajikistan--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tajikistan
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Tajikistan has had the lowest living standards of
the CIS republics and now faces the bleakest economic prospects.
Agriculture (particularly cotton and fruit growing) is the most
important sector, accounting for 38% of employment (1990).
Industrial production includes aluminum reduction, hydropower
generation, machine tools, refrigerators, and freezers.
Throughout 1992 bloody civil disturbances disrupted food imports
and several regions became desperately short of basic needs.
Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless by the
strife. In late 1992, one-third of industry was shut down and
the cotton crop was only one-half of that of 1991.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP $NA
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: -34% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $NA
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 35% per month (first quarter
1993)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 0.4% includes only officially registered
unemployed; also large numbers of underemployed workers
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital
expenditures of $NA
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $100 million to outside successor states of the
former USSR (1992)</l>
<l> commodities: aluminum, cotton, fruits, vegetable oil,
textiles</l>
<l> partners: Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan</l>
<l>Imports: $100 million from outside the successor states of the
former USSR (1992)</l>
<l> commodities: chemicals, machinery and transport equipment,
textiles, foodstuffs</l>
<l> partners: NA</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $650 million (end of 1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate -25% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Electricity: 4,585,000 kW capacity; 16,800 million kWh
produced, 2,879 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers,
cement, vegetable oil, metal-cutting machine tools,
refrigerators and freezers
</p>
<p>Agriculture: cotton, grain, fruits, grapes, vegetables;
cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, yaks
</p>
<p>Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and opium; mostly
for CIS consumption; limited government eradication programs;
used as transshipment points for illicit drugs from Southwest
Asia to Western Europe
</p>
<p>Economic aid: $700 million offical and commitments by foreign
donors (1992)
</p>
<p>Currency: retaining Russian ruble as currency (January 1993)
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: rubles per US$1 - 415 (24 December 1992) but
subject to wide fluctuations
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>