uced,
540 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: mining, steel, clothing and footwear, chemicals,
foodstuffs, fertilizer, beverage, transportation equipment, wood products

_#_Agriculture: accounts for about 15% of GDP and employs 74% of
population; 40% of land area divided into 4,500 large commercial farms
and 42% in communal lands; crops--corn (food staple), cotton, tobacco,
wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; livestock--cattle, sheep, goats, pigs;
self-sufficient in food

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY80-89), $389
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $2.3 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $36 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $134 million

_#_Currency: Zimbabwean dollar (plural--dollars);
1 Zimbabwean dollar (Z$) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: Zimbabwean dollars (Z$) per US$1--2.6724 (January
1991), 2.4480 (1990), 2.1133 (1989), 1.8018 (1988), 1.6611 (1987), 1.6650
(1986), 1.6119 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 2,745 km 1.067-meter gauge; 42 km double track; 355 km
electrified

_#_Highways: 85,237 km total; 15,800 km paved, 39,090 km crushed
stone, gravel, stabilized soil: 23,097 km improved earth; 7,250 km
unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: Lake Kariba is a potential line of communication

_#_Pipelines: 8 km, refined products

_#_Civil air: 12 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 499 total, 415 usable; 23 with permanent-surface runways;
2 with runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 35 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: system was once one of the best in Africa, but
now suffers from poor maintenance; consists of radio relay links,
open-wire lines, and radio communications stations; 247,000 telephones;
stations--8 AM, 18 FM, 8 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Zimbabwe National Army, Air Force of Zimbabwe, Police
Support Unit, Paramilitary Police, People's Militia

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 2,263,724; 1,399,354 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $412.4 million, NA% of GDP (FY91 est.)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 35,980 km2; land area: 32,260 km2; includes the
Pescadores, Matsu, and Quemoy

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than three times the size of
Connecticut

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 1,448 km