991 est.);

commodities--manufactures machinery, food, petroleum;

partners--US 33%, CARICOM 10%, UK 9%, Canada 2% (1989)

_#_External debt: $1.7 billion, including arrears (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 10.0% (1989 est.); accounts
for more than 20% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 250,000 kW capacity; 635 million kWh produced,
830 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: bauxite mining, sugar, rice milling, timber, fishing
(shrimp), textiles, gold mining

_#_Agriculture: most important sector, accounting for 27% of GDP and
about 50% of exports; sugar and rice are key crops; development potential
exists for fishing and forestry; not self-sufficient in food, especially
wheat, vegetable oils, and animal products

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $116
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $244 million; Communist countries 1970-89, $242 million

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

_#_Exchange rates: Guyanese dollars (G$) per US$1--45.00 (since June
1990), 39.533 (1990), 27.159 (1989), 10.000 (1988), 9.756 (1987), 4.272
(1986), 4.252 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 187 km total, all single track 0.914-meter gauge

_#_Highways: 7,665 km total; 550 km paved, 5,000 km gravel, 1,525 km
earth, 590 km unimproved

_#_Inland waterways: 6,000 km total of navigable waterways; Berbice,
Demerara, and Essequibo Rivers are navigable by oceangoing vessels for
150 km, 100 km, and 80 km, respectively

_#_Ports: Georgetown

_#_Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 58 total, 55 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; none with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
14 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: fair system with radio relay network; over
27,000 telephones; tropospheric scatter link to Trinidad; stations--4 AM,
3 FM, no TV, 1 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Guyana Defense Force (GDF; includes Coast Guard
and Air Corps), Guyana Police Force (GPF), Guyana People's Militia (GPM),
Guyana National Service (GNS)

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 195,142; 148,477 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $5.5 million, 6% of GDP (1989 est.)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 27,750 km2