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EAPC, EBRD, ECE, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS,

       ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITU, OIC, OPCW,

       OSCE, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNOMIG, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO,

       WToO, WTrO

      Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Dr. Fatos TARIFA chancery: 2100 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 FAX: [1] (202) 628-7342 telephone: [1] (202) 223-4942

      Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador

       Joseph LIMPRECHT embassy: Rruga Elbasanit, Labinoti #103, Tirana mailing

       address: U. S. Department of State, 9510

       [355] (4) 247285 FAX:

       Flag description: red with a black two-headed eagle in the center

      Economy Albania

      Economy - overview: Poor and backward by European standards, Albania is making the difficult transition to a more modern open-market economy. The government has taken measures to curb violent crime and to revive economic activity and trade. The economy is bolstered by remittances from abroad of $400-$600 million annually, mostly from Greece and Italy. Agriculture, which accounts for 52% of GDP, is held back because of frequent drought and the need to modernize equipment and consolidate small plots of land. Severe energy shortages are forcing small firms out of business, increasing unemployment, scaring off foreign investors, and spurring inflation.

      GDP: purchasing power parity - $13.2 billion (2001 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate: 7.3% (2001 est.)

      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,800 (2001 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 52% industry: 21% services: 27% (2001 est.)

      Population below poverty line: 30% (2001 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (2001 est.)

      Labor force: 1.283 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers and 261,000 domestically unemployed) (2000 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 50%, industry and services 50%

      Unemployment rate: 17% officially (2001 est.); may be as high as 30%

      Budget: revenues: $697 million expenditures: $1.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $368 million (2002 est.)

      Industries: food processing, textiles and clothing; lumber, oil, cement, chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower

      Industrial production growth rate: 9% (2000 est.)

      Electricity - production: 4.738 billion kWh (2000)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 3% hydro: 97% other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

      Electricity - consumption: 5.378 billion kWh (2000)

      Electricity - exports: 100 million kWh (2000)

      Electricity - imports: 1.072 billion kWh (2000)

      Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, sugar beets, grapes; meat, dairy products

      Exports: $306 million (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

      Exports - commodities: textiles and footwear; asphalt, metals and metallic ores, crude oil; vegetables, fruits, tobacco

      Exports - partners: Italy 70%, Greece 12%, Germany 6%, The Former

       Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2%, Austria 1% (2001)

      Imports: $1.1 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

      Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, chemicals

      Imports - partners: Italy 32%, Greece 26%, Turkey 6%, Germany 6%,

       Bulgaria 2% (2001)

      Debt - external: $1 billion (2000)

      Economic aid - recipient: $315 million (top donors were Italy, EU,

       Germany) (2000 est.)

      Currency: lek (ALL)

      Currency code: ALL

      Exchange rates: leke per US dollar - 140.16 (November 2001), 143.71 (2000) 137.69 (1999), 150.63 (1998), 148.93 (1997); note - leke is the plural of lek

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      Communications Albania

      Telephones - main lines in use: 120,000 (2001)

      Telephones - mobile cellular: 250,000 (2001)

      Telephone system: general assessment: Albania has the poorest telephone service in Europe with fewer than two telephones per 100 inhabitants; it is doubtful that every village has telephone service domestic: obsolete wire system; no longer provides a telephone for every village; in 1992, following the fall of the Communist government, peasants cut the wire to about 1,000 villages and used it to build fences international: inadequate; international traffic carried by microwave radio relay from the Tirana exchange to Italy and Greece

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 13, FM 4, shortwave 2 (2001)

      Radios: 1 million (2001)

      Television broadcast stations: 3 (plus 58 repeaters) (2001)

      Televisions: 700,000 (2001)

      Internet country code: .al

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 10 (2001)

      Internet users: 12,000 (2001)

      Transportation Albania

      Railways: total: 447 km standard gauge: 447 km 1.435-m gauge (2001 est.)

      Highways: total: 18,000 km paved: 5,400 km unpaved: 12,600 km (1998 est.)

      Waterways: 43 km note: includes Albanian sections of Lake Scutari,

       Lake Ohrid, and Lake Prespa (1990)

      Pipelines: crude oil 196 km; petroleum products 55 km; natural gas 64 km (1996)

      Ports and harbors: Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore

      Merchant marine: total: 7 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 13,423 GRT/20,837 DWT ships by type: cargo 7, includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Croatia 1, Honduras 1 (2002 est.)

      Airports: 11 (2001)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2001)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: 4 (2001) 914 to 1,523 m: Heliports: 1 (2001)

      Military Albania

      Military branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Interior

       Ministry Troops, Border Guards

      Military manpower - military age: 19 years of age (2002 est.)

      Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 888,086 (2002 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 727,406 (2002 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 35,792 (2002 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: $56.5 million (FY02)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.49% (FY02)

      Transnational Issues Albania

      Disputes - international: the Albanian Government supports protection of the rights of ethnic Albanians outside of its borders in the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia and in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia while continuing to seek regional cooperation; many Albanians illegally transit neighboring states to emigrate to western Europe

      Illicit drugs: increasingly active transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a far

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