y poor in natural resources
and having little rainfall, has a per capita GDP of just a few hundred
dollars. Fishing and phosphate mining are the principal industries and
sources of income. Most of the food for the urban population must be
imported. All trade and other economic activities are controlled by the
Moroccan Government.

_#_GDP: $NA, per capita $NA; real growth rate NA%

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital
expenditures of $NA

_#_Exports: $8 million (f.o.b., 1982 est.);

commodities--phosphates 62%;

partners--Morocco claims and administers Western Sahara, so
trade partners are included in overall Moroccan accounts

_#_Imports: $30 million (c.i.f., 1982 est.);

commodities--fuel for fishing fleet, foodstuffs;

partners--Morocco claims and administers Western Sahara, so
trade partners are included in overall Moroccan accounts

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 60,000 kW capacity; 79 million kWh produced,
425 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: phosphate, fishing, handicrafts

_#_Agriculture: limited largely to subsistence agriculture; some
barley is grown in nondrought years; fruit and vegetables are grown in
the few oases; food imports are essential; camels, sheep, and goats are
kept by the nomadic natives; cash economy exists largely for the garrison
forces

_#_Economic aid: NA

_#_Currency: Moroccan dirham (plural--dirhams);
1 Moroccan dirham (DH) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: Moroccan dirhams (DH) per US$1--8.071 (January
1991), 8.242 (1990), 8.488 (1989), 8.209 (1988), 8.359 (1987), 9.104
(1986), 10.062 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: NA

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 6,100 km total; 1,350 km surfaced, 4,750 km improved and
unimproved earth roads and tracks

_#_Ports: El Aaiun, Ad Dakhla

_#_Airports: 16 total, 14 usable; 3 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
6 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: sparse and limited system; tied into Morocco's
system by radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and 2 Atlantic Ocean
INTELSAT earth stations linked to Rabat, Morocco; 2,000 telephones;
stations--2 AM, no FM, 2 TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: NA

_#_Manpower availability: NA

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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