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       highest 10%: NA

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       15.5% (2004 est.)

      Investment (gross fixed):

       31.3% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $43.34 billion

       expenditures: $47.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $7.6

       billion (2004 est.)

      Public debt:

       27% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Agriculture - products:

       wheat, rice, other grains, sugar beets, fruits, nuts, cotton; dairy

       products, wool; caviar

      Industries:

       petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other construction

       materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and

       vegetable oil production), metal fabrication, armaments

      Industrial production growth rate:

       3.5% excluding oil (2004 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       129 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 97.1% hydro: 2.9% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       119.9 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       3.962 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       1.4 million bbl/day (2002 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       2.5 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Oil - proved reserves:

       130.8 billion bbl (2004 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

       79 billion cu m (2003 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

       72.4 billion cu m (2003 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

       3.4 billion cu m (2003 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

       4.92 billion cu m (2003 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

       26.7 trillion cu m (2004)

      Current account balance:

       $2.1 billion (2004 est.)

      Exports:

       $38.79 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       petroleum 80%, chemical and petrochemical products, fruits and

       nuts, carpets

      Exports - partners:

       Japan 18.4%, China 9.7%, Italy 6%, South Africa 5.8%, South Korea

       5.4%, Taiwan 4.6%, Turkey 4.4%, Netherlands 4% (2004)

      Imports:

       $31.3 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       industrial raw materials and intermediate goods, capital goods,

       foodstuffs and other consumer goods, technical services, military

       supplies

      Imports - partners:

       Germany 12.8%, France 8.3%, Italy 7.7%, China 7.2%, UAE 7.2%, South

       Korea 6.1%, Russia 5.4% (2004)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

       $29.87 billion (2004 est.)

      Debt - external:

       $13.4 billion (2004 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $408 million (2002 est.)

      Currency (code):

       Iranian rial (IRR)

      Currency code:

       IRR

      Exchange rates:

       rials per US dollar - 8,614 (2004), 8,193.9 (2003), 6,907 (2002),

       1,753.6 (2001), 1,764.4 (2000)

       note: Iran has been using a managed floating exchange rate regime

       since unifying multiple exchange rates in March 2002

      Fiscal year:

       21 March - 20 March

      Communications Iran

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       14,571,100 (2003)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       3,376,500 (2003)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: inadequate but currently being modernized and

       expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and

       increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing

       telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently

       connected

       domestic: as a result of heavy investing in the telephone system

       since 1994, the number of long-distance channels in the microwave

       radio relay trunk has grown substantially; many villages have been

       brought into the net; the number of main lines in the urban systems

       has approximately doubled; and thousands of mobile cellular

       subscribers are being served; moreover, the technical level of the

       system has been raised by the installation of thousands of digital

       switches

       international: country code - 98; HF radio and microwave radio relay

       to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria,

       Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; submarine fiber-optic cable to

       UAE with access to Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG);

       Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line runs from Azerbaijan

       through the northern portion of Iran to Turkmenistan with expansion

       to Georgia and Azerbaijan; satellite earth stations - 9 Intelsat and

       4 Inmarsat

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 72, FM 5, shortwave 5 (1998)

      Radios:

       17 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       28 (plus 450 low-power repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       4.61 million (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .ir

      Internet hosts:

       5,269 (2004)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       100 (2002)

      Internet users:

       4.3 million (2003)

      Transportation Iran

      Railways: