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Electricity - capacity: 22,000 kW (1991)
Electricity - production: 30 million kWh (1991)
Electricity - consumption per capita: 29 kWh (1991 est.)
Agriculture - products: rice, corn, beans, cassava (tapioca), cashew
nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; fishing and forest potential not
fully exploited
Exports:
total value: $33 million (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: cashews 95%, fish, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber
(1994)
partners: Spain 35%, India 30%, Thailand 10%, Italy 10% (1995)
Imports:
total value : $52.4 million (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: foodstuffs, transport equipment, petroleum products,
machinery and equipment (1994)
partners: Thailand 27%, Portugal 23%, Japan 6%, Cote d'Ivoire 7%
(1995)
Debt - external: $816 million (1994 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 Guinea-Bissauan peso (PG) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: Guinea-Bissauan pesos (PG) per US$1 - 33,910 (December
1996), 26,373 (1996), 18,073 (1995), 12,892 (1994), 10,082 (1993),
6,934 (1992)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Guinea-Bissau:Communications
Telephones: 3,000 (1988 est.)
Telephone system: poor system
domestic: combination of microwave radio relay, open-wire lines, and
radiotelephone communications
international: NA
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0
Radios: 40,000 (1992 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 1
Televisions: NA
@Guinea-Bissau:Transportation
Railways: 0 km
Highways:
total: 4,350 km
paved: 444 km
unpaved: 3,906 km (1995 est.)
Waterways: scattered stretches are important to coastal commerce
Ports and harbors: Bissau
Merchant marine: none
Airports: 16 (1996 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 12
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m : 8 (1996 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 4 (1996 est.)
Military
Military branches: People's Revolutionary Armed Force (FARP; includes
Army, Navy, and Air Force), paramilitary force
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49 : 268,000 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males: 152,948 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $9 million (1994)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 4.5% (1994)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
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GUYANA
@Guyana:Geography
Location: Northern South Ame
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