major donor countries.

_#_GDP: $942 million, per capita $500; real growth rate 3.5% (1989
est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.2% (1989 est.)

_#_Unemployment rate: 21% (1989 est.)

_#_Budget: revenues $280 million; expenditures $346 million, including
capital expenditures of $61 million (1989 est.)

_#_Exports: $519 million (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities--iron ore, processed fish, small amounts of gum arabic
and gypsum, unrecorded but numerically significant cattle exports to
Senegal;

partners--EC 57%, Japan 39%, Ivory Coast 2%

_#_Imports: $567 million (c.i.f., 1989);

commodities--foodstuffs, consumer goods, petroleum products,
capital goods;

partners--EC 79%, Africa 5%, US 4%, Japan 2%

_#_External debt: $2.3 billion (December 1989)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 4.4% (1988 est.); accounts
for 10% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 189,000 kW capacity; 136 million kWh produced,
70 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: fishing, fish processing, mining of iron ore and gypsum

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 29% of GDP (including fishing); largely
subsistence farming and nomadic cattle and sheep herding except in
Senegal river valley; crops--dates, millet, sorghum, root crops; fish
products number-one export; large food deficit in years of drought

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $168
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $1.2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $490 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $277 million

_#_Currency: ouguiya (plural--ouguiya); 1 ouguiya (UM) = 5 khoums

_#_Exchange rates: ouguiya (UM) per US$1--77.450 (January 1991),
80.609 (1990), 83.051 (1989), 75.261 (1988), 73.878 (1987), 74.375
(1986), 77.085 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 670 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track, owned
and operated by government mining company

_#_Highways: 7,525 km total; 1,685 km paved; 1,040 km gravel, crushed
stone, or otherwise improved; 4,800 km unimproved roads, trails, tracks

_#_Inland waterways: mostly ferry traffic on the Senegal River

_#_Ports: Nouadhibou, Nouakchott

_#_Merchant marine: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
1,290 GRT/1,840 DWT

_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 30 total, 29 usable; 9 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 4 with ru