pples, bananas, palm
kernels
partners:
US 23%, Belgium 12%, Ireland 12%, Spain 12%
Imports:
$768 million (c.i.f., 1992 est.)
commodities:
petroleum products, metals, machinery, transport equipment,
foodstuffs, textiles, and other grain
partners:
France 26%, Cote d'Ivoire 12%, Hong Kong 6%, Germany 6%
External debt:
2.5 billion (1992)
Industrial production:
growth rate NA%; accounts for 27% of GDP
Electricity:
capacity:
113,000 kW
production:
300 million kWh
consumption per capita:
40 kWh (1989)
Industries:
bauxite mining, alumina, gold, diamond mining, light manufacturing and
agricultural processing industries
Agriculture:
accounts for 40% of GDP (includes fishing and forestry); mostly
subsistence farming; principal products - rice, coffee, pineapples,
palm kernels, cassava, bananas, sweet potatoes, timber; livestock -
cattle, sheep and goats; not self-sufficient in food grains
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $227 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89),
$1.465 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $120 million; Communist
countries (1970-89), $446 million
Currency:
1 Guinean franc (FG) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates:
Guinean francs (FG) per US$1 - 810.94 (1 July 1993), 922.9 (30
September 1992), 675 (1990), 618 (1989), 515 (1988), 440 (1987), 383
(1986)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

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Railroads:
1,045 km; 806 km 1.000-meter gauge, 239 km 1.435-meter standard gauge
Highways:
total:
30,100 km
paved:
1,145 km
unpaved:
gravel, crushed stone 12,955 km (of which barely 4,500 are currently
all-weather roads); unimproved earth 16,000 km (1987)
Inland waterways:
1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft
Ports:
Conakry, Kamsar
Airports:
total:
15
usable:
15
with permanent-surface runways:
4
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
3
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
10
Telecommunications:
poor to fair system of open-wire lines, small radiocommunication
stations, and new radio relay system; 15,000 telephones; broadcast
stations - 3 AM 1 FM, 1 TV; 65,000 TV sets; 200,000 radio receivers; 1
Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

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Branches:
Army, Navy (acts primarily as a coast guard), Air Force, Presidential
Guard, Republican Guard, paramilitary National Gendarm