uction: growth rate 4.5% in manufacturing (1988
est.); accounts for 11% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 7,000 kW capacity; 16 million kWh produced,
190 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: soap, beverages, tourism, food processing, furniture,
cement blocks, shoes

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 30% of GDP; principal crops--bananas,
citrus, mangoes, root crops, and coconuts; bananas provide the bulk
of export earnings; forestry and fisheries potential not exploited

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $115 million

_#_Currency: East Caribbean dollar (plural--dollars); 1 EC dollar
(EC$) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.70
(fixed rate since 1976)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 750 km total; 370 km paved, 380 km gravel and earth

_#_Ports: Roseau, Portsmouth

_#_Civil air: NA

_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 2,439 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: 4,600 telephones in fully automatic network;
VHF and UHF link to Saint Lucia; new SHF links to Martinique and
Guadeloupe; stations--3 AM, 2 FM, 1 cable TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: NA

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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_@_Dominican Republic
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 48,730 km2; land area: 48,380 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of New
Hampshire

_#_Land boundary 275 km with Haiti

_#_Coastline: 1,288 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 24 nm;

Continental shelf: outer edge of continental margin or 200 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 6 nm

_#_Climate: tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation

_#_Terrain: rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys
interspersed

_#_Natural resources: nickel, bauxite, gold, silver

_#_Land use: arable land 23%; permanent crops 7%; meadows and pastures
43%; forest and woodland 13%; other 14%; includes irrigated 4%

_#_Environment: subject to occasional hurricanes (July to October);
deforestation

_#_Note: shares island of Hispaniola with Haiti (western one-third is
Haiti, eastern two-thirds is the Dominican Republic)

_*_People
_#_Population: 7,384,837 (July 1991), growth rate 2.0% (1991)

_#_Bir