n (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 7% (1987); accounts for
10% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 25,000 kW capacity; 67 million kWh produced,
960 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: tourism, processing of coconut and vanilla, fishing,
coir rope factory, boat building, printing, furniture, beverage

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 7% of GDP, mostly subsistence farming;
cash crops--coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla; other products--sweet potatoes,
cassava, bananas; broiler chickens; large share of food needs imported;
expansion of tuna fishing under way

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY78-89), $26
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1978-88), $310 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $5 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $60 million

_#_Currency: Seychelles rupee (plural--rupees);
1 Seychelles rupee (SRe) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: Seychelles rupees (SR) per US$1--5.0878 (January
1991), 5.3369 (1990), 5.6457 (1989), 5.3836 (1988), 5.6000 (1987), 6.1768
(1986), 7.1343 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 260 km total; 160 km bituminous, 100 km crushed stone or
earth

_#_Ports: Victoria

_#_Merchant marine: 1 refrigerated cargo (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
1,827 GRT/2,170 DWT

_#_Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 14 total, 14 usable; 8 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
none with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: direct radio communications with adjacent
islands and African coastal countries; 13,000 telephones; stations--2 AM,
no FM, 1 TV; 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station; USAF tracking station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Presidential Protection Unit,
Police Force, Militia

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 17,399; 8,933 fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $12 million, 6% of GDP (1990 est.)
_%_
_@_Sierra Leone
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 71,740 km2; land area: 71,620 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than South Carolina

_#_Land boundaries: 958 km total; Guinea 652 km, Liberia 306 km

_#_Coastline: 402 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Territorial sea: 200 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; hot, humid; summer rainy season (May to
December); winter dry season (December to April)

_#_Terrain: coastal belt of mangr