ion growth rate: 3.5% (1992 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 190,000 kW
production: 905 million kWh (1993)
consumption per capita: 92 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, corn, potatoes,
cassava (tapioca), sorghum, pulses; cattle, goats

Exports: $365 million (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: tobacco, tea, sugar, coffee, peanuts, wood products
partners: US, South Africa, Germany, Japan (1994)

Imports: $240 million (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer
goods, transportation equipment
partners: South Africa, Japan, US, UK, Zimbabwe

External debt: $1.95 billion (December 1994 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: in December 1995, donors pledged for 1996, $332 million

Currency: 1 Malawian kwacha (MK) = 100 tambala

Exchange rates: Malawian kwacha (MK) per US$1 - 16.3516 (November
1995), 8.7364 (1994), 4.4028 (1993), 3.6033 (1992), 2.8033 (1991)

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 789 km
narrow gauge: 789 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 27,294 km (1990 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Waterways: Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi); Shire River, 144 km

Ports: Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota

Airports:
total: 41
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 4
with paved runways under 914 m: 20
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 14 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 43,000 (1985 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: fair system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relay
links, and radiotelephone communications stations
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean
and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 17, shortwave 0

Radios: 1.011 million (1995)

Television broadcast stations: 0 (1987 est.)

Televisions: NA

Defense
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Branches: Army (includes Air Wing and Naval Detachment), Police
(includes paramilitary Mobile Force Unit)

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 2,106,905
males fit for military service: 1,076,788 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $10.4 million,
NA% of GDP (FY94/95)

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