ounts for 2% of GDP and 5% of labor force; cash crop -
dates; food products - vegetables, watermelons, poultry, eggs, dairy,
fish; only 25% self-sufficient in food

Illicit drugs: growing role as heroin transshipment and
money-laundering center

Economic aid:
donor: pledged in bilateral aid to less developed countries (1979-89)
$9.1 billion

Currency: 1 Emirian dirham (Dh) = 100 fils

Exchange rates: Emirian dirhams (Dh) per US$1 - 3.6710 (fixed rate)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@United Arab Emirates:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 2,000 km
paved: 1,800 km
unpaved: gravel, graded earth 200 km

Pipelines: crude oil 830 km; natural gas, including natural gas
liquids, 870 km

Ports: Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Das Island, Khawr Fakkan, Mina' Jabal' Ali,
Mina' Khalid, Mina' Rashid, Mina' Saqr, Mina' Zayid, Umm al Qiwain

Merchant marine:
total: 57 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,128,253 GRT/1,938,770
DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 18, chemical tanker 1, container 10,
liquefied gas tanker 1, livestock carrier 1, oil tanker 21,
refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 3

Airports:
total: 41
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 9
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 12
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 3
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 8

@United Arab Emirates:Communications

Telephone system: 386,600 telephones; modern system consisting of
microwave and coaxial cable; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubayy
local: NA
intercity: microwave and coaxial cable
international: 3 INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean) and 1
ARABSAT earth station; submarine cables to Qatar, Bahrain, India, and
Pakistan; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 8, FM 3, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 12
televisions: NA

@United Arab Emirates:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary (includes Federal Police
Force)

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 1,072,261; males fit for
military service 583,967; males reach military age (18) annually
19,266 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $1.59 billion, 4.3%
of GDP (1994)

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