Ethiopia Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $5.0 billion (1983 '84 est), $120 per capita: real growth rate 3.7% (1983/84)

Natural resources: potash, salt gold, copper, platinum

Agriculture: main crop—coffee; also cereals, pulses, oilseeds, meat, hides and skins

Major industries: cement, sugar refining, cotton textiles food processing, oil refinery

Electric power: 324,000 kW capacity (1985); 709 million kWh produced (1985), 16 kWh per capita

Exports: $403 million (f.o.b., 1983^84 est); 61% coffee, 10% hides and skins

Imports- $906 million (c.i.f., 1983- 84)

Major trade partners: exports—US, FRG, Djibouti, Japan, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy; imports—USSR, Italy, FRG, Japan, UK, US

Budget- revenues and cash grants. $1.1 billion; current expenditures, $1.0 billion; development expenditures, $467 million (1983/84)

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External debt: $1.0 billion, 1981/82; debt service payment, $1.3 billion outstanding (1983/84); 11.0% of exports of goods and nonfactor services (1982183)

Monetary conversion rate: 2.07 Ethiopian birr=US$l (31 October 1983)

Fiscal year 8 July-7 July

NOTE: The information regarding Ethiopia on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Ethiopia 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ethiopia 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.