Unemployment rate: 20% (December 1991 est.) commodities: food, animal feed, building materials, ferrous and nonferrous metals, chemicals, machinery and transportation 5%, other 10% Imports: $720 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.) commodities: food, petroleum, machinery and transport equipment partners: Japan 37%, Europe 13%, US/Canada 11%, Arab countries 6% (1990) National product real growth rate: 3.49% (1993 est.) Death rate: 5.52 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Death rate: 11.63 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 69.93 years male: NA years male: 63.59 years female: 76.46 years (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $35 billion (1989 est.) Environment: water pollution; air pollution; desertification Note: strategic location along Strait of Otranto (links Adriatic Sea Atlantic Ocean Bishkek [Interim Chancery] Tajikistan Dusseldorf [US Consulate General]
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