expenditures of $1.9 billion (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: industrial equipment, transportation equipment, chemicals, medicines, raw cotton, textiles, metal works, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, technical services, refined oil products partners: Italy 30%, Germany 22%, US 6% Imports: $553 million (c.i.f., 1982 est.) commodities: food 25%, manufactured goods 61%, foodstuffs 8%, fuels 21% partners: EC 40%, Africa 16%, US 4%, FRG 2% (1988) Unemployment rate: 5.3% (1986-88 est.) National product per capita: $14,600 (1992 est.) by occupation: pastoral nomad 70%, agriculture, government, trading, fishing, handicrafts, and other 4.7%), none 12.7%, unknown 4.6%, other 3.5% (1987) Languages: Swedish note: small Lapp- and Russian-speaking minorities Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1970) total population: 48% male: 56% female: 60% Labor force: 2.509 million (77% are engaged in farming; wide range of temperate-zone crops and livestock raising predominates (primarily sheep and goats; not self-sufficient in poultry and egg goods
stability