xpenditures: $1.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $487
million (1992 est.)

Exports: $728 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: cotton, soybeans, timber, vegetable oils, meat products,
coffee, tung oil
partners: EC 37%, Brazil 25%, Argentina 10%, Chile 6%, US 6%

Imports: $1.38 billion (c.i.f., 1993 est.)
commodities: capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, raw materials,
fuels
partners: Brazil 30%, EC 20%, US 18%, Argentina 8%, Japan 7%

External debt: $1.4 billion (yearend 1993 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 3.6% (1993 est.); accounts for 20%
of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 6,530,000 kW
production: 26.5 billion kWh (1992)
consumption per capita: NA
note: much of the electricity produced in Paraguay is exported to
Brazil and domestic consumption cannot be determined

Industries: meat packing, oilseed crushing, milling, brewing,
textiles, other light consumer goods, cement, construction

Agriculture: accounts for 26% of GDP; cash crops - cotton, sugarcane,
soybeans; other crops - corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava, fruits,
vegetables; animal products - beef, pork, eggs, milk; surplus producer
of timber; self-sufficient in most foods

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the international drug
trade; important transshipment point for Bolivian cocaine headed for
the US and Europe

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $172 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $1.1 billion

Currency: 1 guarani (G) = 100 centimos

Exchange rates: guaranies (G) per US$ - 1,949.6 (January 1995),
1,911.5 (1994), 1,744.3 (1993), 1,500.3 (1992), 1,325.2 (1991),
1,229.8 (1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Paraguay:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 970 km
standard gauge: 440 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 60 km 1.000-m gauge
other: 470 km various gauges (privately owned)

Highways:
total: 28,300 km
paved: 2,600 km
unpaved: gravel 500 km; earth 25,200 km

Inland waterways: 3,100 km

Ports: Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion

Merchant marine:
total: 13 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 16,747 GRT/19,513 DWT
ships by type: cargo 11, oil tanker 2
note: in addition, 1 naval cargo ship is sometimes used commercially

Airports:
total: 929
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m