oped countries 3% (1987)

_#_Imports: $348 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.);

commodities--machines and manufactures 34%, food and beverages 22%,
petroleum products 14%, chemicals 10%, fats and oils 9%;

partners--US 64%, Netherlands Antilles 5%, Japan 5%, France 4%,
Canada 3%, Germany 3% (1987)

_#_External debt: $838 million (December 1990)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 0.3% (FY88); accounts for
15% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 230,000 kW capacity; 264 million kWh produced,
43 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: sugar refining, textiles, flour milling, cement
manufacturing, tourism, light assembly industries based on imported parts

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 33% of GDP and employs 66% of work force;
mostly small-scale subsistence farms; commercial crops--coffee, mangoes,
sugarcane and wood; staple crops--rice, corn, sorghum; shortage of
wheat flour

_#_Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $700
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $682 million

_#_Currency: gourde (plural--gourdes); 1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: gourdes (G) per US$1-- 5.0 (fixed rate)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 40 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge, single-track, privately
owned industrial line

_#_Highways: 4,000 km total; 950 km paved, 900 km otherwise improved,
2,150 km unimproved

_#_Inland waterways: negligible; less than 100 km navigable

_#_Ports: Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitien

_#_Civil air: 4 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 15 total, 10 usable; 3 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 4 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: domestic facilities barely adequate,
international facilities slightly better; 36,000 telephones;
stations--33 AM, no FM, 4 TV, 2 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army (including Police), Navy, Air Corps

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,287,179; 691,926 fit for
military service; 61,265 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $34 million, 1.5% of GDP (1988 est.)
_%_
_@_Heard Island and McDonald Islands
(territory of Australia)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 412 km2; land area: 412 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 2.5 times the