
Population: 21,456,188
Total Area: 527,970 sq km - slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming
Climate: mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east
Natural resources: petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west
Environment - current issues: very limited natural fresh water resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection. Signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
National holiday: Unification Day, 22 May

Budget: revenues: $5.616 billion; expenditures: $5.719 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2005 est.)
Labor force: 5.83 million (2005 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force
Unemployment rate: 35% (2003 est.)
Agriculture - products: grain, fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat, coffee, cotton; dairy products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, camels), poultry; fish
Industries: crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement; commercial ship repair
Oil - production: 387,500 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - imports: NA
Oil - exports: 370,300 bbl/day (2003)
Oil - proved reserves: 4.37 billion bbl (2005 est.)
Exports: $6.387 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Exports - commodities: crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish
Exports - partners: Thailand 33.8%, China 30.3%, Singapore 7.8% (2004)
Imports: $4.19 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Imports - commodities: food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals
Imports - partners: UAE 12.2%, Saudi Arabia 9.7%, China 8.8%, France 7.3%, India 4.4%, US 4.4%, Kuwait 4.2% (2004)
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