Economy (Egypt 2. usage)
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     Agriculture:
       accounts for 20% of GDP and employs more than one-third of labor force;
       dependent on irrigation water from the Nile; world's sixth-largest cotton
       exporter; other crops produced include rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruit,
       vegetables; not self-sufficient in food for a rapidly expanding population;
       livestock - cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats; annual fish catch about
       140,000 metric tons
     Illicit drugs:
       a transit point for Southwest Asian and Southeast Asian heroin and opium
       moving to Europe and the US; popular transit stop for Nigerian couriers;
       large domestic consumption of hashish and heroin from Lebanon and Syria
     Economic aid:
       US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $15.7 billion; Western (non-US)
       countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $10.1 billion; OPEC
       bilateral aid (1979-89), $2.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $2.4
       billion
     Currency:
       1 Egyptian pound (#E) = 100 piasters
     Exchange rates:
       Egyptian pounds (#E) per US$1 - 3.345 (November 1992), 2.7072 (1990), 2.5171
       (1989), 2.2233 (1988), 1.5183 (1987)
     Fiscal year:
       1 July - 30 June