e (consumer prices): 7% (1992 est.)

Unemployment rate: 16% (1991 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $106 million
expenditures: $128.7 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1993)

Exports: $3.9 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)
commodities: coconut oil, fish, live animals, trichus shells
partners: US, Japan, Australia

Imports: $62.9 million (c.i.f., 1992 est.)
commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, beverages and
tobacco, fuels
partners: US, Japan, Australia

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 42,000 kW
production: 80 million kWh
consumption per capita: 1,840 kWh (1990)

Industries: copra, fish, tourism; craft items from shell, wood, and
pearls; offshore banking (embryonic)

Agriculture: coconuts, cacao, taro, breadfruit, fruits, pigs, chickens

Economic aid:
recipient: under the terms of the Compact of Free Association, the US
is to provide approximately $40 million in aid annually

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

@Marshall Islands:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: NA
note: paved roads on major islands (Majuro, Kwajalein), otherwise
stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads and tracks

Ports: Majuro

Merchant marine:
total: 37 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,205,275 GRT/4,263,247
DWT
ships by type: bulk carrier 23, cargo 1, combination ore/oil 1, oil
tanker 12

Airports:
total: 16
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 5
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 6

@Marshall Islands:Communications

Telephone system: 570 telephones (Majuro) and 186 telephones (Ebeye);
telex services
local: NA
intercity: islands interconnected by shortwave radio (used mostly for
government purposes)
international: 2 INTELSAT (Pacific Ocean) earth stations; US
Government satellite communications system on Kwajalein

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 1
televisions: NA

@Marshall Islands:Defense Forces

Branches: no regular military forces; Police

Note: defense is the responsibility of the US

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