f $NA (1989 est.)

_#_Exports: $196 million (f.o.b., 1988);

commodities--refined petroleum products, bananas, rum, pineapples;

partners--France 65%, Guadeloupe 24%, FRG (1987)

_#_Imports: $1.3 billion (c.i.f., 1988);

commodities--petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction
materials, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods;

partners--France 65%, UK, Italy, FRG, Japan, US (1987)

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 113,000 kW capacity; 564 million kWh produced,
1,660 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: construction, rum, cement, oil refining, sugar, tourism

_#_Agriculture: including fishing and forestry, accounts for about 12%
of GDP; principal crops--pineapples, avocados, bananas, flowers,
vegetables, and sugarcane for rum; dependent on imported food,
particularly meat and vegetables

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $9.9 billion

_#_Currency: French franc (plural--francs); 1 French franc (F) = 100
centimes

_#_Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1--5.1307 (January 1991),
5.4453 (1990), 6.3801 (1989), 5.9569 (1988), 6.0107 (1987), 6.9261
(1986), 8.9852 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 1,680 km total; 1,300 km paved, 380 km gravel and earth

_#_Ports: Fort-de-France

_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 2 total; 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 1 with runways less than 2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: domestic facilities are adequate; 68,900
telephones; interisland radio relay links to Guadeloupe, Dominica, and
Saint Lucia; stations--1 AM, 6 FM, 10 TV; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth
stations

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: French Forces, Gendarmerie

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 95,235; NA fit for military
service

_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of France
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 1,030,700 km2; land area: 1,030,400 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than three times the size of
New Mexico

_#_Land boundaries: 5,074 km total; Algeria 463 km, Mali 2,237 km,
Senegal 813 km, Western Sahara 1,561 km

_#_Coastline: 754 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: edge of continental margin or 200 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: boun