0%, bauxite 17%, cocoa 11%, diamonds 3%,
coffee 3%;

partners--US, UK, Belgium, FRG, other Western Europe

_#_Imports: $183 million (c.i.f., 1989);

commodities--capital goods 40%, food 32%, petroleum 12%,
consumer goods 7%, light industrial goods;

partners--US, EC, Japan, China, Nigeria

_#_External debt: $632 million (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 19% (FY88 est.); accounts
for 8% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 83,000 kW capacity; 180 million kWh produced,
45 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: mining (diamonds, bauxite, rutile), small-scale
manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear), petroleum
refinery

_#_Agriculture: accounts for over 30% of GDP and two-thirds of the
labor force; largely subsistence farming; cash crops--coffee, cocoa, palm
kernels; harvests of food staple rice meets 80% of domestic needs;
annual fish catch averages 53,000 metric tons

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $161
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $698 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $18 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $101 million

_#_Currency: leone (plural--leones); 1 leone (Le) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: leones per US$1--196.0784 (January 1991),
144.9275 (1990), 58.1395 (1989), 31.2500 (1988), 30.7692 (1987),
8.3963 (1986), 4.7304 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 84 km 1.067-meter narrow-gauge mineral line is used on a
limited basis because the mine at Marampa is closed

_#_Highways: 7,400 km total; 1,150 km bituminous, 490 km laterite
(some gravel), remainder improved earth

_#_Inland waterways: 800 km; 600 km navigable year round

_#_Ports: Freetown, Pepel

_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 12 total, 8 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
3 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: marginal telephone and telegraph service;
national microwave radio relay system unserviceable at present; 23,650
telephones; stations--1 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth
station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 939,214; 453,877 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expenditures: $6 million, 0.7% of GDP (1988 est.)
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