sing consumption
of heroin and cocaine

Economic aid:
donor: pledged bilateral aid (1979-89), $64.7 billion; pledged $100
million in 1993 to fund reconstruction of Lebanon

Currency: 1 Saudi riyal (SR) = 100 halalah

Exchange rates: Saudi riyals (SR) per US$1 - 3.7450 (fixed rate since
late 1986), 3.7033 (1986)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Saudi Arabia:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 1,390 km
standard gauge: 1,390 km 1.435-m gauge (448 km double track)

Highways:
total: 151,530 km
paved: 60,610 km
unpaved: 90,920 km (1992 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 6,400 km; petroleum products 150 km; natural gas
2,200 km (includes natural gas liquids 1,600 km)

Ports: Ad Dammam, Al Jubayl, Duba, Jiddah, Jizan, Rabigh, Ras al
Khafji, Ras al Mishab, Ras Tanura, Yanbu' al Bahr, Yanbu' al Sinaiyah

Merchant marine:
total: 71 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 855,452 GRT/1,233,477 DWT

ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 12, chemical tanker 5, container 3,
liquefied gas tanker 1, livestock carrier 4, oil tanker 22, passenger
1, refrigerated cargo 4, roll-on/roll-off cargo 11, short-sea
passenger 7

Airports:
total: 211
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 30
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 12
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 22
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 4
with paved runways under 914 m: 21
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 73
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 43

@Saudi Arabia:Communications

Telephone system: 1,624,000 telephones; modern system
local: NA
intercity: extensive microwave and coaxial and fiber optic cable
systems
international: microwave radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait,
Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Sudan; coaxial cable to Kuwait and Jordan;
submarine cable to Djibouti, Egypt and Bahrain; earth stations - 5
INTELSAT (3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean), 1 ARABSAT, and 1
INMARSAT

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 43, FM 13, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 80
televisions: NA

@Saudi Arabia:Defense Forces

Branches: Land Force (Army), Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Force,
National Guard, Coast Guard, Frontier Forces, Special Security Force,
Public Security Force

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 5,303,679; males fit for
military service 2,949,842; males reach military age (17) annually
164,220 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conv