sugar, gold, coffee, cocoa

Exports--partners: US 45%, EU 19.9%, Canada 3.6%, South Korea 3.3%
(1996)

Imports: $3.6 billion (1998)

Imports--commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics,
chemicals and pharmaceuticals

Imports--partners: US 44%, EU 16%, Venezuela 11%, Netherlands
Antilles, Mexico, Japan (1995)

Debt--external: $3.6 billion (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $239.6 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Dominican peso (RD$) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Dominican pesos (RD$) per US$1--15.949 (January
1999), 15.267 (1998), 14.265 (1997), 13.775 (1996), 13.597 (1995),
13.160 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 190,000 (1987 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: relatively efficient system based on islandwide microwave
radio relay network
international: 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite earth station--1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 120, FM 0, shortwave 6

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 25 (1997)

Televisions: 728,000 (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 757 km
standard gauge: 375 km 1.435-m gauge (Central Romana Railroad)
narrow gauge: 142 km 0.762-m gauge (Dominica Government Railway);
240 km operated by sugar companies in various gauges (0.558-m,
0.762-m, 1.067-m gauges) (1995)

Highways:
total: 12,600 km
paved: 6,224 km
unpaved: 6,376 km (1996 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 96 km; petroleum products 8 km

Ports and harbors: Barahona, La Romana, Puerto Plata, San Pedro
de Macoris, Santo Domingo

Merchant marine:
total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,587 GRT/1,165 DWT
(1998 est.)

Airports: 36 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 14
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 22
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 6
under 914 m: 15 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Police

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 2,156,827 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,355,342 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 82,902 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $180 million (1998)

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