commodities--petroleum, reexports, processed copper, dates, nuts,
fish;

partners--Japan, South Korea, Taiwan

_#_Imports: $2.3 billion (c.i.f., 1989);

commodities--machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured
goods, food, livestock, lubricants;

partners--UK, UAE, Japan, US

_#_External debt: $3.1 billion (December 1989 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 10% (1989), including
petroleum sector

_#_Electricity: 1,136,000 kW capacity; 3,650 million kWh produced,
2,500 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: crude oil production and refining, natural gas
production, construction, cement, copper

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 6% of GDP and 60% of the labor force
(including fishing); less than 2% of land cultivated; largely subsistence
farming (dates, limes, bananas, alfalfa, vegetables, camels, cattle); not
self-sufficient in food; annual fish catch averages 100,000 metric tons

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $137
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $122 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $797 million

_#_Currency: Omani rial (plural--rials); 1 Omani rial (RO) = 1,000
baiza

_#_Exchange rates: Omani rials (RO) per US$1--0.3845 (fixed rate
since 1986)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 22,800 km total; 3,800 km bituminous surface, 19,000 km
motorable track

_#_Pipelines: crude oil 1,300 km; natural gas 1,030 km

_#_Ports: Mina Qabus, Mina Raysut

_#_Merchant marine: 1 passenger ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
4,442 GRT/1,320 DWT

_#_Civil air: 4 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 122 total, 114 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 8 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 64 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: fair system of open-wire, radio relay, and
radio communications stations; 50,000 telephones; stations--3 AM, 3 FM,
11 TV; satellite earth stations--2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT,
and 8 domestic

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Royal Oman Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 348,849; 197,870 fit for
military service; 20,715 reach military age (14) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $1.0 billion, 12% of GDP (1991)
_%_
_@_Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the
(Palau)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 458 km2; land area: 458 km2

_#_Comparative area: