nd export revenues have fallen dramatically. The risk of
malnutrition is a real possibility in 1991.

_#_GNP: $270 million, per capita $430; real growth rate - 25%
(1990 est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $36.6 million; expenditures $32.0 million,
including capital expenditures of NA (1986)

_#_Exports: $88 million;

commodities--citrus;

partners--Israel, Egypt (1989 est.)

_#_Imports: $260 million;

commodities--food, consumer goods, construction materials;

partners--Israel, Egypt (1989 est.)

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: power supplied by Israel

_#_Industries: generally small family businesses that produce cement,
textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs; the
Israelis have established some small-scale modern industries in an
industrial center

_#_Agriculture: olives, citrus and other fruits, vegetables, beef,
dairy products

_#_Economic aid: none

_#_Currency: new Israeli shekel (plural--shekels);
1 new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 new agorot

_#_Exchange rates: new Israeli shekels (NIS) per US$1--2.0120 (January
1991), 2.0162 (1990), 1.9164 (1989), 1.5989 (1988), 1.5946 (1987), 1.4878
(1986), 1.1788
(1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-March 31

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: one line, abandoned and in disrepair, but trackage
remains

_#_Highways: small, poorly developed indigenous road network

_#_Ports: facilities for small boats to service Gaza

_#_Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway less than 1,220 m

_#_Telecommunications: stations--no AM, no FM, no TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: NA

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 136,311; NA fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
_%_
_@_Germany
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 356,910 km2; land area: 349,520 km2; comprises the
formerly separate Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic
Republic, and Berlin following formal unification on 3 October 1990

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Montana

_#_Land boundaries: 3,790 km total; Austria 784 km, Belgium 167 km,
Czechoslovakia 815 km, Denmark 68 km, France 451 km, Luxembourg 138 km,
Netherlands 577 km, Poland 456 km, Switzerland 334 km

_#_Coastline: 2,389 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of explo