ca), bananas, palm oil nuts, manioc (tapioca); livestock;
timber

Exports: $197 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.)

Exports--commodities: petroleum, timber, cocoa

Exports--partners: US 34%, Japan 17%, Spain 13%, China 13%, Nigeria

Imports: $248 million (c.i.f., 1996 est.)

Imports--commodities: petroleum, food, beverages, clothing,
machinery

Imports--partners: Cameroon 40%, Spain 18%, France 14%, US 8%

Debt--external: $254 million (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $33.8 million (1995)

Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) is used

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per
US$1--560.01 (December 1998), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55
(1996), 499.15 (1995), 555.20 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 2,000 (1987 est.)

Telephone system: poor system with adequate government services
domestic: NA
international: international communications from Bata and Malabo to
African and European countries; satellite earth station--1 Intelsat
(Indian Ocean)

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

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

Televisions: 4,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 0 km

Highways:
total: 2,880 km
paved: 0 km
unpaved: 2,880 km (1996 est.)

Ports and harbors: Bata, Luba, Malabo

Merchant marine:
total: 12 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 23,370 GRT/25,194 DWT
ships by type: cargo 9, passenger 2, passenger-cargo 1 (1998 est.)

Airports: 3 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 1
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

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

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 102,269 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 51,979 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $2.5 million (FY97/98)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: maritime boundary dispute with Gabon
because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay;
maritime boundary dispute with Nigeria because of disputed
jurisdiction over oil-rich areas in the Gulf of Guinea

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