imp 16%, cut
flowers 2%, fish 1.9%

Exports--partners: US 39%, Latin America 25%, EU countries 22%,
Asia 12%

Imports: $2.9 billion (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: transport equipment, consumer goods,
vehicles, machinery, chemicals

Imports--partners: US 32%, EU 19%, Latin America 35%, Asia 11%

Debt--external: $12.5 billion (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $695.7 million (1995)

Currency: 1 sucre (S/) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: sucres (S/) per US$1--7,133.1 (January 1999),
5,446.6 (1998), 3,988.3 (1997), 3,189.5 (1996), 2,564.5 (1995),
2,196.7 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 586,300 (1994 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: facilities generally inadequate and unreliable
international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 272, FM 0, shortwave 39

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 15 (including one station on the
Galapagos Islands) (1997)

Televisions: 940,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 965 km (single track)
narrow gauge: 965 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 42,874 km
paved: 5,752 km
unpaved: 37,122 km (1998 est.)

Waterways: 1,500 km

Pipelines: crude oil 800 km; petroleum products 1,358 km

Ports and harbors: Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta,
Puerto Bolivar, San Lorenzo

Merchant marine:
total: 23 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 99,078 GRT/162,423 DWT
ships by type: chemical tanker 2, liquefied gas tanker 1, oil tanker
17, passenger 3 (1998 est.)

Airports: 183 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 56
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
1,524 to 2,437 m: 15
914 to 1,523 m: 14
under 914 m: 19 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 127
914 to 1,523 m: 37
under 914 m: 90 (1998 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army (Ejercito Ecuatoriano), Navy (Armada
Ecuatoriana, includes Marines), Air Force (Fuerza Aerea
Ecuatoriana), National Police

Military manpower--military age: 20 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 3,259,534 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,199,704 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 130,208 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $720 million (1998)

Military expenditur