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coffee 6%
partners: US 42%, Latin America 29%, Caribbean, EU countries 17%

Imports: $3.7 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: transport equipment, consumer goods, vehicles,
machinery, chemicals
partners: US 28%, EU 17%, Latin America 31%, Caribbean, Japan

External debt: $12.6 billion (1995 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $153 million (1993)
note: received $12.7 million from the US and $160 million from other
countries in 1995

Currency: 1 sucre (S/) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: sucres (S/) per US$1 - 2914.8 (31 December 1995),
2,564.5 (1995), 2,196.7 (1994), 1,919.1 (1993), 1,534.0 (1992),
1,046.25 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 965 km (single track)
narrow gauge: 965 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 43,709 km
paved: 5,245 km
unpaved: 38,464 km (1991 est.)

Waterways: 1,500 km

Pipelines: crude oil 800 km; petroleum products 1,358 km

Ports: Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta, Puerto Bolivar,
San Lorenzo

Merchant marine:
total: 19 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 114,701 GRT/171,240 DWT
ships by type: container 2, liquefied gas tanker 1, oil tanker 12,
passenger 3, refrigerated cargo 1 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 188
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 2
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 7
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 8
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 13
with paved runways under 914 m: 121
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 5
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 32 (1995 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 586,300 (1994 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: facilities generally inadequate and unreliable
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 272, FM 0, shortwave 39

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 33

Televisions: 940,000 (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Army (Ejercito Ecuatoriano), Navy (Armada Ecuatoriana,
includes Marines), Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Ecuatoriana), National
Police

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 2,968,361
males fit for military service: 2,006,509
males reach military age (20) annually: 121,241 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $386 million,
2.1% of GDP (1995)

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