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<title>
Cambodia: Economy
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Cambodia
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Cambodia remains a desperately poor country whose
economic recovery is held hostage to continued political unrest
and factional hostilities. The country's immediate economic
challenge is an acute financial crisis that is undermining
monetary stability and preventing disbursement of foreign
development assistance. Cambodia is still recovering from an
abrupt shift in 1990 to free-market economic mechanisms and a
cutoff in aid from former Soviet bloc countries; these changes
have severely impacted on public sector revenues and
performance. The country's infrastructure of roads, bridges, and
power plants has been severely degraded, now having only 40-50%
of prewar capacity. The economy remains essentially rural, with
90% of the population living in the countryside and dependent
mainly on subsistence agriculture. Statistical data on the
economy continue to be sparse and unreliable.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $2 billion
(1991 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: NA%
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $280 (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 250-300% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $120 million; expenditures $NA, including
capital expenditures of $NA (1992 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $59 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: natural rubber, rice, pepper, wood</l>
<l> partners: Vietnam, USSR, Eastern Europe, Japan, India</l>
<l>Imports: $170 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: international food aid; fuels, consumer goods,
machinery</l>
<l> partners: Vietnam, USSR, Eastern Europe, Japan, India</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $717 million (1990)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
</p>
<p>Electricity: 35,000 kW capacity; 70 million kWh produced, 9
kWh per capita (1990)
</p>
<p>Industries: rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products,
rubber, cement, gem mining
</p>
<p>Agriculture: mainly subsistence farming except for rubber
plantations; main crops - rice, rubber, corn; food shortages -
rice, meat, vegetables, dairy products, sugar, flour
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $725
million; Western (non-US countries) (1970-89), $300 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $1.8 billion
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 riel (CR)=100 sen
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: riels (CR) per US$1 - 2,800 (September 1992),
500 (December 1991), 560 (1990), 159.00 (1988), 100.00 (1987)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>