#_External debt: $1.0 trillion for less developed countries
(1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 3% (1990 est.)

_#_Electricity: 2,864,000,000 kW capacity; 11,450,000 million kWh
produced, 2,150 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: chemicals, energy, machinery, electronics, metals,
mining, textiles, food processing

_#_Agriculture: cereals (wheat, maize, rice), sugar, livestock
products, tropical crops, fruit, vegetables, fish

_#_Economic aid: NA

_*_Communications
_#_Ports: Mina al Ahmadi (Kuwait), Chiba, Houston, Kawasaki, Kobe,
Marseille, New Orleans, New York, Rotterdam, Yokohama

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: ground, maritime, and air forces at all levels of
technology

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,412,502,000; NA fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $1.1 trillion, 5.3% of GWP (1990 est.)
_%_
_@_Yemen
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 527,970 km2; land area: 527,970 km2; includes Perim,
Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and
the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen)

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming

_#_Land boundaries: 1,746 km total; Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia 1,458 km

_#_Coastline: 1,906 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: North--18 nm; South--24 nm;

Continental shelf: North--200 meters (depth); South--edge of
continental margin or 200 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: North--no claim; South 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: undefined section of boundary with Saudi Arabia;
Administrative Line with Oman

_#_Climate: desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in
western mountains; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east

_#_Terrain: narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and
rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into
the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula

_#_Natural resources: crude oil, fish, rock salt, marble; small
deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west

_#_Land use: arable land 6%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 30%; forest and woodland 7%; other 57%; includes irrigated
NEGL%

_#_Environment: subject to sand and dust storms in summer; scarcity of
natural freshwater resources; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification

_#_Note: controls Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and
the Gulf