ries 62%, China 17%, EC 8% (1992)

Imports: $361 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, food products, industrial
consumer goods, chemicals, building materials, sugar, tea
partners: USSR 75%, Austria 5%, China 5% (1991)

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate -15% (1992 est.); accounts for
about 42% of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 900,000 kW
production: 3.1 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,267 kWh (1993)

Industries: copper, processing of animal products, building materials,
food and beverage, mining (particularly coal)

Agriculture: accounts for about 35% of GDP and provides livelihood for
about 50% of the population; livestock raising predominates (primarily
sheep and goats, but also cattle, camels, and horses); crops - wheat,
barley, potatoes, forage

Economic aid: NA

Currency: 1 tughrik (Tug) = 100 mongos

Exchange rates: tughriks (Tug) per US$1 - 415.34 (January 1995),
412.72 (1994), 42.56 (1992), 9.52 (1991), 5.63 (1990)
note: the exchange rate 40 tughriks = 1US$ was introduced June 1991
and was in force to the end of 1992; beginning 27 May 1993 the
exchange rate is the midpoint of the average buying and selling rates
that are freely determined on the basis of market transactions between
commercial banks and the nonbank public

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Mongolia:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 1,750 km
broad gauge: 1,750 km 1.524-m gauge (1988)

Highways:
total: 46,700 km
paved: 1,000 km
unpaved: 45,700 km (1988)

Inland waterways: 397 km of principal routes (1988)

Ports: none

Airports:
total: 34
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 3
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 10
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 5

@Mongolia:Communications

Telephone system: 63,000 telephones (1989)
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: at least 1 satellite earth station

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 1, shortwave 0
radios: 220,000

Television:
broadcast stations: 1 (provincial repeaters - 18)
televisions: 120,000

@Mongolia:Defense Forces

Branches: Mongolian People's Army (includes Internal Security Forces
and Frontier Guards), Air Force

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 605,633; males fit for military
s