Yugoslavia Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $128.8 billion (1984 est., at 1983 prices), $5,600 per capita; real growth rate -1.7% (1984)

Natural resources: coal, copper, bauxite, timber, iron, antimony, chromium, lead, zinc, asbestos, mercury

Agriculture: diversified agriculture with many small private holdings and large agricultural combines; main crops—corn, wheat, tobacco, sugar beets, and sunflowers; occasionally a net exporter of foodstuffsand live animals; imports tropical products, cotton, wool, and vegetable meal feeds

Fishing: catch 73,5(15 metric tons (1984)

Major industries: metallurgy, machinery and equipment, oil refining, chemicals, textiles, wd processing, food processing

Shortages: electricity, fuels

Crude steel· 4.2 million metric tons produced (1984), 184 kg per capita

Electric pou er. 19,575,000 kW capacity (1985); 77.516 billion kWh produced (1985), 3,350 kWh per capita

Exports: $10.3 billion (f.o b., 1984); 52% raw materials and semimanufactures, 31% consumer goods, 17% equipment

Imports: $12.0 billion (c.i.f., 1984); 82% raw materials and semimanufactures, 13% equipment, 5% consumer goods

Major trade partners: 61% non-Communist countries; 39% Communist countries, of which 21 % USSR (1984)

Monetary conversion rate: 296.4 dinars=US$l (November 1985)

Fiscal year: calendar year (all data refer to calendar year or to middle or end of calendar year as indicated)

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