t: $3.1 billion (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 7.4% in manufacturing (1989);
accounts for almost 1.5% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 1,172,000 kW capacity; 4,110 million kWh produced,
280 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, fishing,
aluminum, food processing

_#_Agriculture: accounts for more than 50% of GDP (including fishing
and forestry); the major cash crop is cocoa; other principal crops--rice,
coffee, cassava, peanuts, corn, shea nuts, timber; normally
self-sufficient in food

_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the international
drug trade

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $455
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $2.3 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $78 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $106 million

_#_Currency: cedi (plural--cedis); 1 cedi (C) = 100 pesewas

_#_Exchange rates: cedis (C) per US$1--342.91 (November 1990), 270.00
(1989), 202.35 (1988), 153.73 (1987), 89.20 (1986), 54.37 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 953 km, all 1.067-meter gauge; 32 km double track;
railroads undergoing major renovation

_#_Highways: 28,300 km total; 6,000 km concrete or bituminous surface,
22,300 km gravel, laterite, and improved earth surfaces

_#_Inland waterways: Volta, Ankobra, and Tano Rivers provide 155 km of
perennial navigation for launches and lighters; Lake Volta provides
1,125 km of arterial and feeder waterways

_#_Pipelines: none

_#_Ports: Tema, Takoradi

_#_Merchant marine: 4 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
52,016 GRT/66,627 DWT

_#_Civil air: 6 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 10 total, 9 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 7 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: poor to fair system of open-wire and cable,
radio relay links; 38,000 telephones; stations--6 AM, no FM, 9 TV;
1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Police Force, paramilitary Palace
Guard, National Civil Defense Organization

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 3,538,503; 1,983,493 fit for
military service; 169,698 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $23 million, 0.5% of GNP (1988)
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