NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Industries: food processing, beverages, clothing and textiles

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity:
capacity: NA kW
production: NA kWh
consumption per capita: NA kWh

Agriculture: sorghum, lentils, vegetables, maize, cotton, tobacco,
coffee, sisal (for making rope); livestock (including goats); fish

Exports: $33 million (1995 est.)
commodities: livestock, sorghum, textiles
partners: Ethiopia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Yemen

Imports: $420 million (1995 est.)
commodities: processed goods, machinery, petroleum products
partners: NA

External debt: $NA

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 birr (Br) = 100 cents; at present, Ethiopian currency
used

Exchange rates: birr (Br) per US$1 - 6.2 (1995 est.), 5.600
(September 1994), 5.000 (fixed rate 1992-93); note - following
independence from Ethiopia, Eritrea continued to use Ethiopian
currency, the official rate of which was pegged to US$1 = 5.000 birr

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 307 km; note - nonoperational since 1978 except for about 5
km that was reopened in Massawa in 1994; rehabilitation of the
remainder and of the rolling stock is under way; links Ak'ordat and
Asmara (formerly Asmera) with the port of Massawa (formerly Mits'iwa)
narrow gauge: 307 km 0.950-m gauge (1995 est.)

Highways:
total: 3,845 km
paved: 807 km
unpaved: 3,038 km (1993 est.)

Ports: Assab (Aseb), Massawa (Mits'iwa)

Merchant marine:
total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 11,573 GRT/13,593
DWT (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 14
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 4
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 4 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: NA

Telephone system:
domestic: very inadequate; about 4 telephones per 100 families, most
of which are in Asmara; government is seeking international tenders
to improve the system
international: NA

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

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 1 (government controlled)

Televisions: NA

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy,