Syria Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $20.7 billion (1984\ $2,000 per capita; real GDP growth rate 2% (1984)

Natural resources: crude oil, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum

Agriculture: main crops—cotton, wheat, barley, tobacco; sheep and goat raising; selfsufficient in most foods in years of good weather

Major industries: textiles, food processing, beverages, tobacco; petroleum—170,000 b/d production (1984), 229,000 b/d refining capacity

Electric power: 2,256,700 kW capacity (1985); 6.919 billion kWh produced (1985), 656 kWh per capita

Exports: $1.9 billion (f.o.b., 1984), petroleum, textiles and textile products, tobacco, fruits and vegetables, cotton

Imports: $4.1 billion (f.o.b., 1984); petroleum, machinery and metal products, textiles, fuels, foodstuffs

Major trade partners: exports—Romania, Italy, France, USSR; imports—Iran, FRG, Italy, Libya

Syria

Budget: 1985—revenues $6 3 billion (excluding aid pay ments); expenditures $10.9 billion

Monetary conversion rate- 3.925 Syrian pounds=US$I (official rate, February 1984); two other officially sanctioned rates—the parallel” and ‘ tourist” rates—are determined by the government guided by supply and demand

Fiscal near: calendar year

NOTE: The information regarding Syria 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 Syria 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Syria 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.