Macedonia, Germany,
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece
External debt:
$724 million (1993 est.)
Industrial production:
growth rate -10% (1993 est.); accounts for 16% of GDP (1993 est.)
Electricity:
capacity:
1,690,000 kW
production:
5 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
1,520 kWh (1992)
Industries:
food processing, textiles and clothing, lumber, oil, cement,
chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower
Agriculture:
accounts for 55% of GDP; arable land per capita among lowest in
Europe; 80% of arable land now in private hands; one-half of work
force engaged in farming; produces wide range of temperate-zone crops
and livestock
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin transiting the Balkan
route; limited opium production
Economic aid:
recipient:
$190 million humanitarian aid; $94 million in loans/guarantees/credits
Currency:
1 lek (L) = 100 qintars
Exchange rates:
leke (L) per US$1 - 99 (January 1994), 97 (January 1993), 50 (January
1992), 25 (September 1991)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

@Albania, Communications

Railroads:
543 km total; 509 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track and 34
km narrow gauge, single track (1990); line connecting Titograd (Serbia
and Montenegro) and Shkoder (Albania) completed August 1986
Highways:
total:
16,700 km
paved:
6,700 km
unpaved:
earth 10,000 km (1990)
Inland waterways:
43 km plus Albanian sections of Lake Scutari, Lake Ohrid, and Lake
Prespa (1990)
Pipelines:
crude oil 145 km; petroleum products 55 km; natural gas 64 km (1991)
Ports:
Durres, Sarande, Vlore
Merchant marine:
11 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 52,967 GRT/76,887 DWT
Airports:
total:
12
usable:
10
with permanent-surface runways:
3
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
6
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
4
Telecommunications:
inadequate service; 15,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 13 AM, 1
TV; 514,000 radios, 255,000 TVs (1987 est.)

@Albania, Defense Forces

Branches:
Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Interior Ministry Troops
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49 906,938; fit for military service 746,945; reach
military age (19) annually 33,184 (1994 est.)
Defense expenditures:
215 million leke, NA% of GNP (1993 est.); note - conversion of defense
expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could