1991 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $33.6 million
expenditures: $44.8 million, including capital expenditures of
$570,000 (1991 est.)

Exports: $19 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: cashews, fish, peanuts, palm kernels
partners: Portugal, Spain, Senegal, India, Nigeria

Imports: $56 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: foodstuffs, transport equipment, petroleum products,
machinery and equipment
partners: Portugal, Netherlands, China, Germany, Senegal

External debt: $462 million (December 1990 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate NA (1991 est.); accounts for 8% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 22,000 kW
production: 40 million kWh
consumption per capita: 37 kWh (1993)

Industries: agricultural processing, beer, soft drinks

Agriculture: accounts for over 45% of GDP, nearly 100% of exports, and
90% of employment; rice is the staple food; other crops include corn,
beans, cassava, cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, and cotton; not
self-sufficient in food; fishing and forestry potential not fully
exploited

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $49 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $615 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $41 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $68 million

Currency: 1 Guinea-Bissauan peso (PG) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Guinea-Bissauan pesos (PG) per US$1 - 14,482 (December
1994), 12,892 (1994), 10,082 (1993), 6,934 (1992), 3,659 (1991), 2,185
(1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Guinea-bissau:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 3,218 km
paved: bituminous 2,698 km
unpaved: earth 520 km

Inland waterways: scattered stretches are important to coastal
commerce

Ports: Bissau

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 32
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 22
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 6

@Guinea-bissau:Communications

Telephone system: 3,000 telephones; poor system; telephone density -
2.7 telephones/1,000 persons
local: NA
intercity: combination of microwave radio relay, open wire lines and
radiocommunications
international: NA

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 1
televisions: NA

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