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- Tanzania: Economy
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- <article><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>
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- <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
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