consumption per capita: 2,270 kWh (1994)

Industries: petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield
equipment; steel, iron ore, cement; chemicals and petrochemicals;
textiles

Agriculture: cotton, grain, rice, grapes, fruit, vegetables, tea,
tobacco; cattle, pigs, sheep and goats

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly
for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program;
transshipment point for illicit drugs to Western Europe

Economic aid:
recipient: wheat from Turkey

Currency: 1 manat = 100 gopik

Exchange rates: manats per US$1 - 4500 (April 1995), 4168 (end of
December 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Azerbaijan:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 2,090 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial
lines
broad gauge: 2,090 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)

Highways:
total: 36,700 km
paved or graveled: 31,800 km
unpaved: earth 4,900 km (1990)

Pipelines: crude oil 1,130 km; petroleum products 630 km; natural gas
1,240 km

Ports: Baku (Baki)

Airports:
total: 69
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 17
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 7
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 33

@Azerbaijan:Communications

Telephone system: 710,000 telephones; 90 telephones/1,000 persons
(1991); 202,000 persons waiting for telephone installations (January
1991); domestic telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate
local: a joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system
(Bakcel) in the Baku area is supposed to become operational in 1994
intercity: NA
international: connections to other former USSR republics by cable and
microwave and to other countries via the Moscow international gateway
switch; INTELSAT link installed in late 1992 in Baku with Turkish
financial assistance with access to 200 countries through Turkey;
since August 1993 an earth station near Baku has provided direct
communications with New York through Russia's Stationar-11 satellite

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: NA; domestic and Russian TV programs are received
locally and Turkish and Iranian TV is received from an INTELSAT
satellite through a receive-only earth station
televisions: NA

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