billion, per capita $110; real growth rate 5.0%
(1989 est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 22.9% (1990 est.)

_#_Unemployment rate: 50% (1989 est.)

_#_Budget: revenues $186 million; expenditures $239 million,
including capital expenditures of $208 million (1988 est.)

_#_Exports: $90 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);

commodities--shrimp 48%, cashews 21%, sugar 10%, copra 3%,
citrus 3%;

partners--US, Western Europe, GDR, Japan

_#_Imports: $764 million (c.i.f., 1989 est.), including aid;

commodities--food, clothing, farm equipment, petroleum;

partners--US, Western Europe, USSR

_#_External debt: $5.1 billion (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1989 est.)

_#_Electricity: 2,265,000 kW capacity; 1,740 million kWh produced,
120 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: food, beverages, chemicals (fertilizer, soap, paints),
petroleum products, textiles, nonmetallic mineral products (cement,
glass, asbestos), tobacco

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 90% of the labor force, 50% of GDP,
and about 90% of exports; cash crops--cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane,
tea, shrimp; other crops--cassava, corn, rice, tropical fruits; not
self-sufficient in food

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $350
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $3.8 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $37 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $890 million

_#_Currency: metical (plural--meticais); 1 metical (Mt) = 100 centavos

_#_Exchange rates: meticais (Mt) per US$1--1,700 (November 1990),
800.00 (1989), 528.60 (1988), 289.44 (1987), 40.43 (1986), 43.18 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 3,288 km total; 3,140 km 1.067-meter gauge; 148 km
0.762-meter narrow gauge; Malawi-Nacala, Malawi-Beira, and
Zimbabwe-Maputo lines are subject to closure because of insurgency

_#_Highways: 26,498 km total; 4,593 km paved; 829 km gravel, crushed
stone, stabilized soil; 21,076 km unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: about 3,750 km of navigable routes

_#_Pipelines: 306 km crude oil (not operating); 289 km refined
products

_#_Ports: Maputo, Beira, Nacala

_#_Merchant marine: 5 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 7,806
GRT/12,873 DWT

_#_Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 197 total, 145 usable; 27 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659