though pierced through the jungle with his unchangeable face, Monseigneur looked out. It is not more burdensome than necessary to substantially reduce inflation. National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $11.5 billion (1990 est.) National product real growth rate: 8.4% (1991 est.) National product per capita: $1,500 (1992 est.) Unemployment rate: 30% (1988 est.) Budget: deficit $16.3 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.) commodities: capital goods 29%, consumer goods 11.8% (1990) partners: EC 44%, Africa 25%, US 6% Imports: $1.33 billion (c.i.f., 1991) commodities: crude oil, foodstuffs, construction materials, clothing, vehicles, machinery, medicines, petroleum partners: France 65%, Guadeloupe 24%, Germany (1987) Imports: $1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1988) commodities: building materials, furniture making Agriculture: minor role in Middle Eastern geopolitics *Egypt, People Population: 499,115 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 1.04% (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 7.33 children born/woman (1993 est.) Birth rate: 13.66 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Defense
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