ricity
Imports - partners: US 41%, Japan 8.1%, Mexico 7.3%, Venezuela 4%
(1998)
Debt - external: $3.9 billion (1998 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $107.1 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Costa Rican colon (C) = 100 centimos
Exchange rates: Costa Rican colones (C) per US$1 - 299.63 (February
2000), 285.68 (1999), 257.23 (1998), 232.60 (1997), 207.69 (1996),
179.73 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Costa Rica:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 451,000 (525,700 main lines installed)
(yearend 1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 46,500 (December 1996)
Telephone system: very good domestic telephone service
domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave,
fiber-optic and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is
available
international: connected to Central American Microwave System;
satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two submarine
cables (1999)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)
Radios: 980,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions: 525,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (1999)
@Costa Rica:Transportation
Railways:
total: 950 km
narrow gauge: 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified)
Highways:
total: 37,273 km
paved: 7,827 km
unpaved: 29,446 km (1998 est.)
Waterways: about 730 km, seasonally navigable
Pipelines: petroleum products 176 km
Ports and harbors: Caldera, Golfito, Moin, Puerto Limon, Puerto
Quepos, Puntarenas
Merchant marine: none (1999 est.)
Airports: 155 (1999 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 28
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 18
under 914 m: 7 (1999 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 127
914 to 1,523 m: 29
under 914 m: 98 (1999 est.)
@Costa Rica:Military
Military branches: Coast Guard, Air Section, Ministry of Public
Security Force (Fuerza Publica);
Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 1,010,087 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 676,691 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 38,043 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $55 million (FY95)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2% (FY95)
@Costa Rica:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
Illicit drugs: transshipment country for cocaine
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