-fuels and lubricants 15%, metals, machinery,
transportation equipment, industrial chemicals;

partners--Brazil 24%, Argentina 14%, US 8%, FRG 8% (1987)

_#_External debt: $4.2 billion (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 2.1% (1989 est.)

_#_Electricity: 1,950,000 kW capacity; 5,274 million kWh produced,
1,740 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: meat processing, wool and hides, sugar, textiles,
footwear, leather apparel, tires, cement, fishing, petroleum refining,
wine

_#_Agriculture: large areas devoted to extensive livestock grazing;
wheat, rice, corn, sorghum; self-sufficient in most basic foodstuffs

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $105
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $293 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $69 million

_#_Currency: new Uruguayan peso (plural--pesos);
1 new Uruguayan peso (N$Ur) = 100 centesimos

_#_Exchange rates: new Uruguayan pesos (N$Ur) per US$1--1,626.4
(January 1991), 1,171.0 (1990), 605.5 (1989), 359.44 (1988), 226.67
(1987), 151.99 (1986), 101.43 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 3,000 km, all 1.435-meter standard gauge and government
owned

_#_Highways: 49,900 km total; 6,700 km paved, 3,000 km gravel,
40,200 km earth

_#_Inland waterways: 1,600 km; used by coastal and shallow-draft river
craft

_#_Ports: Montevideo, Punta del Este

_#_Merchant marine: 4 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 65,212
GRT/116,613 DWT; includes 2 cargo, 1 container, 1 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker

_#_Civil air: 14 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 91 total, 86 usable; 16 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
17 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: most modern facilities concentrated in
Montevideo; new nationwide radio relay network; 337,000 telephones;
stations--99 AM, no FM, 26 TV, 9 shortwave; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
earth stations

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy (including Naval Air Arm and Marines), Air
Force, Coast Guard, Grenadier Guards, Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 735,971; 597,302 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expenditures: $168 million, 2.2% of GDP (1988)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 14,760 km2; land area: 14,760 km2; includes more
than