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<text id=93CT1443>
<title>
Tanzania--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tanzania
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the
world. The economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, which
accounts for about 58% of GDP, provides 85% of exports, and
employs 90% of the work force. Industry accounts for 8% of GDP
and is mainly limited to processing agricultural products and
light consumer goods. The economic recovery program announced in
mid-1986 has generated notable increases in agricultural
production and financial support for the program by bilateral
donors. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and
bilateral donors have provided funds to rehabilitate Tanzania's
deteriorated economic infrastructure. Growth in 1991-92 featured
a pickup in industrial production and a substantial increase in
output of minerals led by gold.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $7.2
billion (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 4.5% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $260 (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 22% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $495 million; expenditures $631 million,
including capital expenditures of $118 million (FY90)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $422 million (f.o.b., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: coffee, cotton, tobacco, tea, cashew nuts,
sisal</l>
<l> partners: FRG, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Kenya, Hong Kong,
US</l>
<l>Imports: $1.43 billion (c.i.f., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and
transportation equipment, cotton piece goods, crude oil,
foodstuffs</l>
<l> partners: FRG, UK, US, Japan, Italy, Denmark</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $6.44 billion (1992)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 9.3% (1990); accounts for
7% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 405,000 kW capacity; 600 million kWh produced, 20
kWh per capita (1991)
</p>
<p>Industries: primarily agricultural processing (sugar, beer,
cigarettes, sisal twine), diamond and gold mining, oil refinery,
shoes, cement, textiles, wood products, fertilizer
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for over 58% of GDP; topography and
climatic conditions limit cultivated crops to only 5% of land
area; cash crops - coffee, sisal, tea, cotton, pyrethrum
(insecticide made from chrysanthemums), cashews, tobacco, cloves
(Zanzibar); food crops - corn, wheat, cassava, bananas, fruits,
vegetables; small numbers of cattle, sheep, and goats; not
self-sufficient in food grain production
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $400
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $9.8 billion; OPEC bilateral aid
(1979-89), $44 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $614
million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Tanzanian shilling (TSh)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Tanzanian shillings (TSh) per US$1 - 325.00
(November 1992), 219.16 (1991), 195.06 (1990), 143.38 (1989),
99.29 (1988), 64.26 (1987)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June
</p></body></article></text>