1.32 (March 1993)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Latvia:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 2,400 km
broad gauge: 2,400 km 1.520-m gauge (270 km electrified)

Highways:
total: 59,500 km
paved and graveled: 33,000 km
unpaved: earth 26,500 km (1990)

Inland waterways: 300 km perennially navigable

Pipelines: crude oil 750 km; refined products 780 km; natural gas 560
km (1992)

Ports: Daugavpils, Liepaja, Riga, Ventspils

Merchant marine:
total: 85 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 774,182 GRT/1,010,517 DWT

ships by type: cargo 17, oil tanker 37, refrigerated cargo 24,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 7

Airports:
total: 50
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
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: 27
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 10

@Latvia:Communications

Telephone system: 660,000 telephones; 240 telephones/1,000 persons
(1993); Latvia is better provided with telephone service than most of
the other former Soviet republics; an NMT-450 analog cellular
telephone network covers 75% of Latvia's population
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: international traffic carried by leased connection to
the Moscow international gateway switch and through the new Ericsson
AXE local/transit digital telephone exchange in Riga and through the
Finnish cellular net; electronic mail capability by Sprint data
network

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

Television:
broadcast stations: NA
televisions: NA

@Latvia:Defense Forces

Branches: Ground Forces, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Security
Forces (internal and border troops), Border Guard, Home Guard
(Zemessardze)

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 658,193; males fit for military
service 517,896; males reach military age (18) annually 18,736 (1995
est.)

Defense expenditures: 176 million rubles, 3% to 5% of GDP (1994); note
- conversion of the military budget into US dollars using the
prevailing exchange rate could produce misleading results

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LEBANON

Note--Lebanon has made progress toward rebuilding its political
institutions and regaining its national sovereignty since the end of
the devastating 16-year civil war which began in 1975. Un