pital expenditures of $NA
(1994 est.)

Industries: rubber processing, food processing, construction
materials, furniture, palm oil processing, iron ore, diamonds

Industrial production growth rate: NA% (1993-94)

Electricity:
capacity: 330,000 kW
production: 440 million kWh
consumption per capita: 143 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: rubber, coffee, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), palm
oil, sugarcane, bananas; sheep, goats; timber

Illicit drugs: increasingly a transshipment point for heroin and
cocaine

Exports: $530 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: iron ore 61%, rubber 20%, timber 11%, coffee
partners: US, EC, Netherlands, Singapore

Imports: NA (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: mineral fuels, chemicals, machinery, transportation
equipment, manufactured goods; rice and other foodstuffs
partners: US, EC, Japan, China, Netherlands, ECOWAS, South Korea

External debt: $1.9 billion (1993 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Liberian dollar (L$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Liberian dollars (L$) per US$1 - 1.0000
(officially fixed rate since 1940); market exchange rate of US$1 -
L$50 (October 1995), L$7 (January 1992), market rate floats against
the US dollar

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 490 km (single track); note - three rail systems owned and
operated by foreign steel and financial interests in conjunction
with Liberian Government; one of these, the Lamco Railroad, closed
in 1989 after iron ore production ceased; the other two have been
shut down by the civil war
standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 145 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 10,029 km
paved: 600 km
unpaved: 9,429 km (1987 est.)

Ports: Buchanan, Greenville, Harper, Monrovia

Merchant marine:
total: 1,601 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 59,449,296
GRT/98,819,081 DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 2, bulk 411, cargo 121, chemical tanker
108, combination bulk 28, combination ore/oil 56, container 143,
liquefied gas tanker 77, multifunction large-load carrier 1, oil
tanker 463, passenger 42, passenger-cargo 1, refrigerated cargo 64,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 23, short-sea passenger 4, specialized tanker
9, vehicle carrier 48
note: a flag of convenience registry; includes ships from 59
countries among which are US 253, Japan 172, Norway 165, Germany
149, Greece 137, Hong Kon