read and write (1971) total population: 95% male:

per capita (1991) Industries: small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarette, textile, carpet, cement, and brick production; tourism Agriculture: export crops - millet, sorghum, rice, cotton, tomatoes, green vegetables; estimated two-thirds self-sufficient in nondrought years; fruit and vegetables Economic aid: none Currency: 1 Tunisian dinar (TD) = 1,000 fils Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 6.8774 (January 1993), 1.245 (1992), 0.772 (1991), 0.187 (1990), 2.666 (1989), 0.129 (1988) Fiscal year: calendar year

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