NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%

Budget:

revenues: $42.3 billion expenditures: $48.4 billion (FY08 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

4.7% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

20% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

19.74% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$18.81 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$3.67 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

NA (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, cotton; cattle, sheep, poultry

Industries:

petroleum, chemicals, textiles, leather, construction materials, food processing, fertilizer, metal fabrication/processing

Industrial production growth rate:

7.9% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

33.53 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

35.84 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007)

Electricity - imports:

2.315 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 98.4% hydro: 1.6% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

2.094 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

295,000 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

1.67 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - imports:

NA bbl/day

Oil - proved reserves:

115 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

3.5 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

1.8 billion cu m note: 1.48 billion cu m were flared (2006 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

3.17 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

$6.025 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$38.14 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

crude oil 84%, crude materials excluding fuels 8%, food and live animals 5%

Exports - partners:

US 36.8%, Italy 12.6%, South Korea 9.5%, Taiwan 6.3%, Spain 5.2%,
Canada 4.7%, France 4.4%, Netherlands 4.2% (2007)

Imports:

$25.67 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

food, medicine, manufactures

Imports - partners:

Syria 30.5%, Turkey 19.8%, US 11.1%, Jordan 5%, China 4.8% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$21.65 billion (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$25.66 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$100.9 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares: