ment. The government is the major employer of the work force,
relying heavily on financial assistance from the US.

_#_GDP: $31.6 million, per capita $2,260; real growth rate NA% (1986)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

_#_Unemployment rate: 20% (1986)

_#_Budget: revenues $6.0 million; expenditures NA, including capital
expenditures of NA (1986)

_#_Exports: $0.5 million (f.o.b., 1986);

commodities--NA;

partners--US, Japan

_#_Imports: $27.2 million (c.i.f., 1986);

commodities--NA;

partners--US

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 16,000 kW capacity; 22 million kWh produced,
1,540 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: tourism, craft items (shell, wood, pearl), some
commercial fishing and agriculture

_#_Agriculture: subsistence-level production of coconut, copra,
cassava, sweet potatoes

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $2
billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $62.6 million

_#_Currency: US currency is used

_#_Exchange rates: US currency is used

_#_Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 25.7 km paved macadam and concrete roads, otherwise
stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads (1986)

_#_Ports: Koror

_#_Airports: 2 with permanent-surface runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: stations--1 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV; 1 Pacific Ocean
INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of the US and that will not
change when the UN trusteeship terminates
_%_
_@_Pacific Ocean
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 165,384,000 km2; includes Arafura Sea, Banda Sea,
Bellingshausen Sea, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Coral Sea, East China Sea,
Gulf of Alaska, Makassar Strait, Philippine Sea, Ross Sea, Sea of Japan,
Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, and other tributary water
bodies

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 18 times the size of the US;
the largest ocean (followed by the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and
Arctic Ocean); covers about one-third of the global surface; larger than
the total land area of the world

_#_Coastline: 135,663 km

_#_Climate: the western Pacific is monsoonal--a rainy season occurs
during the summer months, when moisture-laden winds blow from the ocean
over the land, and a dry season during the winter months, when dry winds
bl