orest resources extensively exploited

Illicit drugs: passenger and cargo air hub for West Africa;
facilitates movement of heroin en route from Southeast and Southwest
Asia to Western Europe and North America; increasingly a transit
route for cocaine from South America intended for West European,
East Asian, and North American markets

Exports: $9.9 billion (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: oil 98%, cocoa, rubber
partners: US 52%, EC 34%

Imports: $7.5 billion (c.i.f., 1993)
commodities: machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured
goods, chemicals, food and animals
partners: EC 50%, US 13%, Japan 7%

External debt: $32.5 billion (1993)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 naira (N) = 100 kobo

Exchange rates: naira (N) per US$1 - 21.886 (January 1996), 21.895
(1995), 21.996 (1994), 22.065 (1993), 17.298 (1992), 9.909 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 3,557 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge
standard gauge: 52 km 1.435-m gauge

Highways:
total: 112,140 km
paved: 31,500 km
unpaved: 80,640 km (1991 est.)

Waterways: 8,575 km consisting of the Niger and Benue rivers and
smaller rivers and creeks

Pipelines: crude oil 2,042 km; petroleum products 3,000 km;
natural gas 500 km

Ports: Calabar, Lagos, Onne, Port Harcourt, Sapele, Warri

Merchant marine:
total: 33 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 387,552 GRT/636,578 DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 16, chemical tanker 3, oil tanker 12,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 1 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 66
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 6
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 10
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 10
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 8
with paved runways under 914 m: 18
with unpaved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 12 (1995 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 492,204 (1990 est.)

Telephone system: average system limited by poor maintenance;
major expansion in progress
domestic: microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and 20 domestic
satellite earth stations carry intercity traffic
international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic
Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); 1 coaxial submarine cable

Radio broadcast stations: AM 35, FM 17, shortwave 0

Radios: 20 million