nsumer prices): 9% (1990 est.)

_#_Unemployment: NA

_#_Budget: revenues $99 million; expenditures $128 million, including
capital expenditures of $65 million (FY89 est.)

_#_Exports: $70.9 million (f.o.b., FY89);

commodities--cardamon, gypsum, timber, handicrafts, cement, fruit;

partners--India 93%

_#_Imports: $138.3 million (c.i.f., FY89 est.);

commodities--fuel and lubricants, grain, machinery and parts,
vehicles, fabrics;

partners--India 67%

_#_External debt: $70.1 million (FY89 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 12.4% (1988 est.); accounts
for 18% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 353,000 kW capacity; 2,000 million kWh produced,
1,280 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: cement, wood products, processed fruits, alcoholic
beverages, calcium carbide

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; based on subsistence farming
and animal husbandry; self-sufficient in food except for foodgrains;
other production--rice, corn, root crops, citrus fruit, dairy, and eggs

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $86.0 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $11
million

_#_Currency: ngultrum (plural--ngultrum); 1 ngultrum (Nu) = 100
chetrum; note--Indian currency is also legal tender

_#_Exchange rates: ngultrum (Nu) per US$1--18.329 (January 1991),
17.504 (1990), 16.226 (1989), 13.917 (1988), 12.962 (1987), 12.611
(1986), 12.369 (1985); note--the Bhutanese ngultrum is at par with the
Indian rupee

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 1,304 km total; 418 km surfaced, 515 km improved, 371 km
unimproved earth

_#_Civil air: 1 jet, 2 prop

_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 2,439 m; 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: inadequate; 1,990 telephones (1988); 22,000
radios (1990 est.); 85 TVs (1985); stations--1 AM, 1 FM, no TV (1990)

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Royal Bhutan Army, Palace Guard, Militia

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 398,263; 213,083 fit for
military service; 17,321 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 1,098,580 km2; land area: 1,084,390 km2

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

_#_Land boundaries: 6,743 km total; Argentina 832 km, Brazil 3,400
km, Chile 861 km,