s: $308 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY96/97 est.)
Industries: sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, tourism,
light assembly industries based on imported parts
Industrial production growth rate: 2.5% (1995 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 153,000 kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 315 million kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 48 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum;
wood
Exports:
total value: $90 million (f.o.b., 1996)
commodities: light manufactures 53%, coffee 17%, other agriculture 17%
partners: US 76.3%, EU 19.8% (1996)
Imports:
total value: $665 million (f.o.b., 1996)
commodities: machines and manufactures 34%, food and beverages 22%,
petroleum products 14%, chemicals 10%, fats and oils 9%
partners: US 65.0%, EU 13.9% (1995)
Debt-external: $781 million (1995 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: gourdes (G) per US$1 (end of period)-17.311 (December
1997), 17.311 (1997), 15.093 (1996), 16.160 (1995), 12.947 (1994),
12.805 (1993)
Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September
Communications
Telephones: 50,000 (1990 est.)
Telephone system: domestic facilities barely adequate, international
facilities slightly better
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station-1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 33, FM 0, shortwave 2
Radios: 320,000 (1992 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 4 (1987 est.)
Televisions: 32,000 (1992 est.)
@Haiti:Transportation
Railways:
total: 40 km (single track; privately owned industrial line)-closed in
early 1990s
narrow gauge: 40 km 0.760-m gauge
Highways:
total: 4,160 km
paved: 1,011 km
unpaved: 3,149 km (1996 est.)
Waterways: NEGL; less than 100 km navigable
Ports and harbors: Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Jacmel, Jeremie, Les Cayes,
Miragoane, Port-au-Prince, Port-de-Paix, Saint-Marc
Merchant marine: none
Airports: 14 (1997 est.)
Airports-with paved runways:
total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1997 est.)
Airports-with unpaved runways:
total: 11
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 6 (1997 est.)
@Haiti:Military
Military branches: Haitian National Police (HNP)
note: the regular Haitian Army, Navy, and Air Force have been
demobilized but still exist on paper until/unless constitutionally
abolished
Military manpower-military age: 18 years
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