цями або шотландцями. Оригінальним підставою британської промисловості була вугільна промисловість. Майже всі англійські люди живуть у містах, великих або невеликих. p align="justify"> Таблиця 7. Переклад тексту 5 000 знаків. p align="justify"> Economy Great Britain is primarily an industrial and commercial nation. Major industries, such as transportation, communications, steel, petroleum, coal, gas, and electricity, which had been nationalized by Labour governments, were sold to private investors by the Conservative government in the 1980s. The country is a world leader in international trade. In January 1973, Great Britain became a member of the European Community (now called the European Union). The gross domestic product (GDP) in 1993 totaled $ 941.4 billion. Annual national budget revenues in the early 1990s were estimated at $ 325.5 billion, and expenditures were $ 400.9 billion. Britain's unemployment exceeded 10 percent of the workforce in the early 1990s. Agriculture Compared with most other major countries, Great Britain devotes a relatively small portion of its labor force (in the early 1990s about 2 percent of the employed population) to agriculture, forestry, and fishing, and the nation must import supply of the food for its large population. In the early 1990s approximately 27 percent of the total land area of ​​Great Britain was devoted to crops, and about 46 percent to permanent pasture and rough grazing. Agriculture in Great Britain is intensive and highly mechanized. Income from livestock and dairy products is about three times that from crops. Horticultural products are also important, especially in southern England. The most important crops (with approximate annual production in the early 1990s) were wheat (14.1 million metric tons), potatoes (7.8 million), barley (7.4 million), sugar beets (8.5 million), and oats (504,000). A variety of fruits and vegetables is also grown. Livestock in the same period included about 11.8 million cattle, 44 million sheep, 7.6 million pigs, and 136 million poultry. Forestry And Fishing Of the approximately 2.2 million hectares (about 5.4 million acres) of woodlands in Great Britain, about 40 percent are in England, 49 percent in Scotland, and 11 percent in Wales. The most common trees are oak, beech, ash, and elm. Pine and birch predominate in Scotland. Production of roundwood totaled about 6.7 million cu m (about 237 million cu ft) in the early 1990s. Private owners, who held more than 60 percent of the total forestlands, were responsible for replanting some 15,500 hectares (about 38,300 acres) of the total. The reforestation of an additional 65,000 hectares (about 160,000 acres) in Northern Ireland was also planned. Despite these recent efforts, however, Great Britain still imports about 90 percent of its timber. The deep-sea fishing industry has declined since the 1960s, in part because of restrictions legislated by the European Community; it remains most im...
