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<text id=94CT0789><title>Kuwait—Economy</title> <article><source>CIA Factbook</source> <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Kuwait<nl>Economy</hdr><body> <list> <item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> Kuwait is a small and relatively open economy with proven crude oil reserves of about 94 billion barrels—10% of world reserves. Kuwait has rebuilt its war-ravaged petroleum sector; its crude oil production reached at least 2.0 million barrels per day by the end of 1993. The government ran a sizable fiscal deficit in 1993. Petroleum accounts for nearly half of GDP and 90% of export and government revenues. <item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—purchasing power equivalent—$25.7 billion (1993 est.) <item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> 15% (1993 est.) <item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $15,100 (1993 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Inflation rate (consumer prices):</hi> 3% (1993) <item><hi format=bold>Unemployment rate:</hi> NEGL% (1992 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Budget:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>revenues:</hi> $9 billion <item>• <hi format=ital>expenditures:</hi> $13 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY93) </list> <item><hi format=bold>Exports:</hi> $10.5 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.) <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>commodities:</hi> oil <item>• <hi format=ital>partners:</hi> France 16%, Italy 15%, Japan 12%, UK 11% </list> <item><hi format=bold>Imports:</hi> $6 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.) <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>commodities:</hi> food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing <item>• <hi format=ital>partners:</hi> US 35%, Japan 12%, UK 9%, Canada 9% </list> <item><hi format=bold>External debt:</hi> $7.2 billion (December 1989 est.) <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> external debt has grown substantially in 1991 and 1992 to pay for restoration of war damage </list> <item><hi format=bold>Industrial production:</hi> growth rate NA%; accounts for NA% of GDP <item><hi format=bold>Electricity:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>capacity:</hi> 6,873,000 kW available out of 7,398,000 kW due to Persian Gulf war <item>• <hi format=ital>production:</hi> 12.264 billion kWh <item>• <hi format=ital>consumption per capita:</hi> 8,890 kWh (1992) </list> <item><hi format=bold>Industries:</hi> petroleum, petrochemicals, desalination, food processing, building materials, salt, construction <item><hi format=bold>Agriculture:</hi> practically none; dependent on imports for food; about 75% of potable water must be distilled or imported <item><hi format=bold>Economic aid:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>donor:</hi> pledged bilateral aid to less developed countries (1979-89), $18.3 billion </list> <item><hi format=bold>Currency:</hi> 1 Kuwaiti dinar (KD)=1,000 fils <item><hi format=bold>Exchange rates:</hi> Kuwaiti dinars (KD) per US$1—0.2982 (January 1994), 0.3017 (1993), 0.2934 (1992), 0.2843 (1991), 0.2915 (1990), 0.2937 (1989) <item><hi format=bold>Fiscal year:</hi> 1 July–30 June </list></body></article></text>