beverage concentrates, medical equipment, instruments
partners: US 86.2% (1993)

Imports: $16.7 billion (1994)
commodities: chemicals, clothing, food, fish, petroleum products
partners: US 69.2% (1993)

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 4.230,000 kW
production: 15.6 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,819 kWh (1993)

Industries: manufacturing accounts for 39.4% of GDP; manufacturing of
pharmaceuticals, electronics, apparel, food products, instruments;
tourism

Agriculture: accounts for only 3% of labor force and just over 1% of
GDP; crops - sugarcane, coffee, pineapples, plantains, bananas;
livestock - cattle, chickens; imports a large share of food needs
(1993)

Economic aid: none

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

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

@Puerto Rico:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 96 km rural narrow-gauge system for hauling sugarcane; note -
no passenger railroads

Highways:
total: 13,762 km
paved: 13,762 km (1982)

Ports: Guanica, Guayanilla, Guayama, Playa de Ponce, San Juan

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 31
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 3
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 9
with paved runways under 914 m: 14
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2

@Puerto Rico:Communications

Telephone system: NA telephones; modern system, integrated with that
of the US by high capacity submarine cable and INTELSAT with
high-speed data capability; digital telephone system with about 1
million lines; cellular telephone service (1990)
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 1 INTELSAT earth station and submarine cable

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 50, FM 63, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 9; note - cable television available with US
programs (1990)
televisions: NA

@Puerto Rico:Defense Forces

Branches: paramilitary National Guard, Police Force

Note: defense is the responsibility of the US

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QATAR

@Qatar:Geography

Location: Middle East, peninsula bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi
Arabia

Map references: Middle East

Area:
total area: 11,000 sq km
land area: 11,000 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Connecticut

Land boundar