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- Economy
-
- Overview: The PDRY is one of the poorest Arab countries,
- with a per capita GNP of about $500. A shortage of natural
- resources, a widely dispersed population, and an arid climate
- make economic development difficult. The economy has grown
- at an average annual rate of only 2-3% since the mid-1970s.
- The economy is organized along socialist lines, dominated
- by the public sector. Economic growth has been constrained
- by a lack of incentives, partly stemming from centralized
- control over production decisions, investment allocation,
- and import choices.
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- GNP: $1.2 billion, per capita $495; real growth rate 5.2%
- (1988 est.).
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.8% (1987).
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- Unemployment rate: NA%.
-
- Budget: revenues $429 million; expenditures $976 million,
- including capital expenditures of $402 million (1988 est.).
-
- Exports: $82.2 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.); commodities--cotton,
- hides, skins, dried and salted fish; partners--Japan, YAR,
- Singapore.
-
- Imports: $598.0 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.); commodities--grain,
- consumer goods, crude oil, machinery, chemicals; partners--USSR,
- Australia, UK.
-
- External debt: $2.25 billion (December 1989 est.).
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
-
- Electricity: 245,000 kW capacity; 600 million kWh produced,
- 240 kWh per capita (1989).
-
- Industries: petroleum refinery (operates on imported crude
- oil); fish.
-
- Agriculture: accounts for 13% of GNP and 45% of labor force;
- products--grain, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee, fish,
- livestock; fish and honey major exports; most food imported.
-
- Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-80), $4.5 million;
- Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
- (1970-87), $241 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89),
- $279 million; Communist countries (1970-88), $2.2 billion.
-
- Currency: Yemeni dinar (plural--dinars); 1 Yemeni dinar
- (YD) = 1,000 fils.
-
- Exchange rates: Yemeni dinars (YD) per US$1--0.3454 (fixed rate).
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- Fiscal year: calendar year.
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