)

Agriculture--products: fruits, vegetables; goats, sheep, camels

Exports: $39.6 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.)

Exports--commodities: hides and skins, coffee (in transit) (1995)

Exports--partners: Ethiopia 45%, Somalia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
(1996)

Imports: $200.5 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.)

Imports--commodities: foods, beverages, transport equipment,
chemicals, petroleum products (1995)

Imports--partners: France, Ethiopia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Thailand
(1996)

Debt--external: $276 million (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $106.3 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Djiboutian franc (DF) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: Djiboutian francs (DF) per US$1--177.721 (fixed
rate since 1973)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 7,200 (1986 est.)

Telephone system: telephone facilities in the city of Djibouti
are adequate as are the microwave radio relay connections to
outlying areas of the country
domestic: microwave radio relay network
international: submarine cable to Jiddah, Suez, Sicily, Marseilles,
Colombo, and Singapore; satellite earth stations--1 Intelsat (Indian
Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; Medarabtel regional microwave radio relay
telephone network

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0

Radios: 35,000

Television broadcast stations: 1 (in addition, there are 5
low-power repeaters) (1998)

Televisions: 17,000 (1998)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 97 km (Djibouti segment of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad)
narrow gauge: 97 km 1.000-m gauge
note: in April 1998, Djibouti and Ethiopia announced plans to
revitalize the century-old railroad that links their capitals

Highways:
total: 2,890 km
paved: 364 km
unpaved: 2,526 km (1996 est.)

Ports and harbors: Djibouti

Merchant marine:
total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,369 GRT/3,030 DWT
(1998 est.)

Airports: 11 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 2
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 9
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Djibouti National Army (includes Navy and Air
Force)

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 105,075 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 61,712 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $22.5 mil