1988); commodities--copper 37%,
coffee 24%, diamonds 12%, cobalt, crude oil; partners--US, Belgium,
France, FRG, Italy, UK, Japan

Imports: $1.9 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--consumer goods,
foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels;
partners--US, Belgium, France, FRG, Italy, Japan, UK

External debt: $8.6 billion (December 1989 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity: 2,574,000 kW capacity; 5,550 million kWh produced,
160 kWh per capita (1989)

Industries: mining, mineral processing, consumer products (including
textiles, footwear, and cigarettes), processed foods and beverages, cement,
diamonds

Agriculture: cash crops--coffee, palm oil, rubber, quinine; food
crops--cassava, bananas, root crops, corn

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for domestic
consumption

Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $998 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $6.0 billion;
OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $35 million; Communist countries (1970-88),
$263 million

Currency: zaire (plural--zaire); 1 zaire (Z) = 100 makuta

Exchange rates: zaire (Z) per US$1--465.000 (January 1989),
381.445 (1989), 187.070 (1988), 112.403 (1987), 59.625 (1986), 49.873 (1985)

Fiscal year: calendar year

- Communications
Railroads: 5,254 km total; 3,968 km 1.067-meter gauge (851 km
electrified); 125 km 1.000-meter gauge; 136 km 0.615-meter gauge; 1,025 km
0.600-meter gauge

Highways: 146,500 km total; 2,550 km bituminous, 46,450 km gravel and
improved earth; remainder unimproved earth

Inland waterways: 15,000 km including the Congo, its tributaries, and
unconnected lakes

Pipelines: refined products 390 km

Ports: Matadi, Boma, Banana

Merchant marine: 4 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 41,802 GRT/60,496
DWT; includes 1 passenger cargo, 3 cargo

Civil air: 38 major transport aircraft

Airports: 312 total, 258 usable; 25 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 6 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
71 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: barely adequate wire and radio relay service;
31,200 telephones; stations--10 AM, 4 FM, 18 TV; satellite earth
stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 14 domestic

- Defense Forces
Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, Logistics Corps,
Special Presidential Division

Military manpower: males 15-49, 7,970,619; 4,057,561 fit for military
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