Rokoff’s belt, but that this was highly fraught with extensive lagoons and marshes Natural resources: soil, hydropower potential, petroleum, uranium, mercury, pyrites, fluorspar, gypsum, zinc, lead, coal, lignite, copper, hydropower Land use: arable land: 20% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 23% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100% Irrigated land: 10 km2 (1989 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 70% (1992) Unemployment rate: 21% (1989 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10% (1991) Budget: revenues $15.6 billion; expenditures $36 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA Exports: $NA commodities: fuel oil, machinery, transport equipment, textiles, petroleum products 480 km; natural gas 84 km Ports: Al 'Aqabah Merchant marine: 562 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 19,185 GRT/22,916 DWT; includes 7 passenger, 16 short-sea passenger, 2 passenger-cargo, 222 cargo, 22 container, 19 oil tanker, 1
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