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<text id=93CT1412>
<title>
Tunisia--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tunisia
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: The economy depends primarily on petroleum,
phosphates, tourism, and exports of light manufactures.
Following two years of drought-induced economic decline, the
economy came back strongly in 1990-92 as a result of good
harvests, continued export growth, and higher domestic
investment. High unemployment has eroded popular support for the
government, however, and forced Tunis to slow the pace of
economic reform. Nonetheless, the government appears committed
to implementing its IMF-supported structural adjustment program
and to servicing its foreign debt.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $13.6
billion (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 8% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $1,650 (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 15.7% (1992)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $4.3 billion; expenditures $5.5 billion,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $3.7 billion (f.o.b., 1992)</l>
<l> commodities: hydrocarbons, agricultural products, phosphates
and chemicals</l>
<l> partners: EC countries 74%, Middle East 11%, US 2%, Turkey,
former USSR republics</l>
<l>Imports: $6.1 billion (c.i.f., 1992)</l>
<l> commodities: industrial goods and equipment 57%,
hydrocarbons 13%, food 12%, consumer goods</l>
<l> partners: EC countries 67%, US 6%, Canada, Japan,
Switzerland, Turkey, Algeria</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $7.7 billion (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1989); accounts for
about 25% of GDP, including petroleum
</p>
<p>Electricity: 1,545,000 kW capacity; 5,096 million kWh
produced, 600 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron
ore), tourism, textiles, footwear, food, beverages
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 15% of GDP and one-third of labor
force; output subject to severe fluctuations because of frequent
droughts; export crops - olives, dates, oranges, almonds; other
products - grain, sugar beets, wine grapes, poultry, beef,
dairy; not self-sufficient in food; fish catch of 99,200 metric
tons (1987)
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $730
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $5.2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid
(1979-89), $684 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $410
million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Tunisian dinar (TD)=1,000 millimes
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Tunisian dinars (TD) per US$1 - 0.9931
(February 1993), 0.8844 (1992), 0.9246 (1991), 0.8783 (1990),
0.9493 (1989), 0.8578 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>