The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA%

       highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       41% (2002, yearend)

      Labor force:

       15 million (1999)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

      Unemployment rate:

       21.5% (37377)

      Budget:

       revenues: $44 billion

       expenditures: $48 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA

       (2000 est.)

      Industries:

       food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles,

       chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, steel

      Industrial production growth rate:

       1% (2000 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       97.17 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 52.2% hydro: 40.8% other: 0.2% (2001) nuclear: 6.7%

      Electricity - consumption:

       92.12 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       5.662 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       7.417 billion kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       828,600 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       486,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - proved reserves:

       2.927 billion bbl (37257)

      Natural gas - production:

       37.15 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

       31.1 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

       6.05 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

       0 cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

       768 billion cu m (37257)

      Agriculture - products: sunflower seeds, lemons, soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco, peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock

      Exports:

       $25.3 billion f.o.b. (2002)

      Exports - commodities:

       edible oils, fuels and energy, cereals, feed, motor vehicles

      Exports - partners:

       Brazil 23.6%, US 10.9%, Chile 9.7%, Spain 4.3% (2002)

      Imports:

       $9 billion f.o.b. (2002)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal

       manufactures, plastics

      Imports - partners:

       Brazil 42%, US 12.8%, Germany 4.4% (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $155 billion (2001 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $10 billion (2001 est.)

      Currency:

       Argentine peso (ARS)

      Currency code:

       ARS

      Exchange rates:

       Argentine pesos per US dollar - 3.06 (2002), 1 (2001), 1 (2000), 1

       (1999), 1 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Argentina

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       7.5 million (1998)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       3 million (December 1999)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: by opening the telecommunications market to

       competition and foreign investment with the "Telecommunications

       Liberalization Plan of 1998," Argentina encouraged the growth of

       modern telecommunication technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines

       are being installed between all major cities; the major networks are

       entirely digital and the availability of telephone service is being

       improved; however, telephone density is presently minimal, and

       making telephone service universally available will take time

       domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber-optic cable, and a domestic

       satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network;

       more than 110,000 pay telephones are installed and mobile telephone

       use is rapidly expanding

       international: satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Atlantic

       Ocean); Atlantis II and Unisur submarine cables; two international

       gateways near Buenos Aires (1999)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 260 (including 10 inactive stations), FM NA (probably more than

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