transport equipment,
petroleum products
partners: Italy 14%, France 9%, US 8%, Turkey 5%, Saudi Arabia 3%

External debt: $1.2 billion (July 1995)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Lebanese pound (LL) = 100 piasters

Exchange rates: Lebanese pounds (LL) per US$1 - 1,584.0 (March
1996), 1,621.4 (1995), 1,680.1 (1994), 1,741.4 (1993), 1,712.8
(1992), 928.2 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 222 km
standard gauge: 222 km 1.435-m (from Beirut to the Syrian border)

Highways:
total: 7,370 km
paved: 6,265 km
unpaved: 1,105 km (1990 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 72 km (none in operation)

Ports: Al Batrun, Al Mina, An Naqurah, Antilyas, Az Zahrani,
Beirut, Jubayl, Juniyah, Shikka, Sidon, Tripoli, Tyre

Merchant marine:
total: 58 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 192,075 GRT/296,256 DWT
ships by type: bulk 4, cargo 39, chemical tanker 1, combination bulk
1, combination ore/oil 1, container 2, livestock carrier 4,
refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 2, specialized tanker
1, vehicle carrier 2 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 7
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 2
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 150,000 (1990 est.)

Telephone system: telecommunications system severely damaged by
civil war; rebuilding still underway
domestic: primarily microwave radio relay and cable
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean
and 1 Atlantic Ocean) (erratic operations); coaxial cable to Syria;
microwave radio relay to Syria but inoperable beyond Syria to
Jordan; 3 submarine coaxial cables

Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 3, shortwave 1
note: more than 100 AM and FM stations are operated sporadically by
various factions

Radios: 2.37 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 13

Televisions: 1.1 million (1993 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF; includes Army, Navy, and Air
Force)

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 889,517
males fit for military service: 553,538 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $278 million,
5.5% of GDP (1994)

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