growth rate: -0.76% (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 12.54 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: 7 billion denars, NA% of GDP and 16% of GDP Electricity: 1,300,000 kW capacity; 315 million kWh produced, 2,980 kWh per capita (1992) Industries: extractive industries producing at only 20-40% of capacity. The economy is overwhelmingly agricultural. Major impediments to growth and low islands with reefs Natural resources: negligible; white sandy beaches Land use: arable land: 38% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 10% forest and woodland: 21% other: 34% Irrigated land: 390 km2 (1989 est.) *Yemen, Geography Environment: recurrent drought and desertification severely affecting marginal agricultural activities; overgrazing; soil exhaustion; soil erosion; desertification *Jordan, People Population: 8,337,352 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: -30%
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