(1995 est.)

Economic aid:
donor: ODA, $9.721 billion (1993)

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: British pounds (L) per US$-0.6115 (January 1998),
0.6106 (1997), 0.6403 (1996), 0.6335 (1995), 0.6529 (1994), 0.6658
(1993); Canadian dollars (Can$) per US$-1.4408 (January 1998), 1.3846
(1997), 1.3635 (1996), 1.3724 (1995), 1.3656 (1994), 1.2901 (1993);
French francs (F) per US$-6.0836 (January 1998), 5.8367 (1997), 5.1155
(1996), 4.9915 (1995), 5.5520 (1994), 5.6632 (1993); Italian lire
(Lit) per US$-1,787.7 (January 1997), 1,703.1 (1997), 1,542.9 (1996),
1,628.9 (1995), 1,612.4 (1994), 1,573.7 (1993); Japanese yen (Y) per
US$-129.45 (January 1998), 120.99 (1997), 108.78 (1996), 94.06 (1995),
102.21 (1994), 111.20 (1993); German deutsche marks (DM) per US$ -
1.8167 (January 1998), 1.7341 (1997), 1.5048 (1996), 1.4331 (1995),
1.6228 (1994), 1.6533 (1993)

Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September

Communications

Telephones: 182.558 million (1987 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: a large system of fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay,
coaxial cable, and domestic satellites carries conventional telephone
traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone
traffic throughout country
international: 24 ocean cable systems in use; satellite earth
stations-61 Intelsat (45 Atlantic Ocean and 16 Pacific Ocean) (1990
est.), 5 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 4 Inmarsat (Pacific
and Atlantic Ocean regions)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 4,987, FM 4,932, shortwave 0

Radios: 540.5 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1,092 (in addition, there are about
9,000 cable TV systems)

Televisions: 215 million (1993 est.)

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Railways:
total: 240,000 km mainline routes (nongovernment owned)
standard gauge: 240,000 km 1.435-m gauge (1989)

Highways:
total: 6.42 million km
paved: 3,903,360 km (including 88,400 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,516,640 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: 41,009 km of navigable inland channels, exclusive of the
Great Lakes

Pipelines: petroleum products 276,000 km; natural gas 331,000 km
(1991)

Ports and harbors: Anchorage, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Chicago,
Duluth, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles,
New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Port Canaveral, Portland
(Oregon), Prudhoe Bay, San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, Tampa, Toledo

Merchant marine:
total: 286 ships (