4%), US 11.6%

External debt: $16.2 billion (June 1992)

Industrial production: growth rate 5.6% (1994)

Electricity:
capacity: 65,360,000 kW
production: 303 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,123 kWh (1993)

Industries: production machinery including machine tools, electric
power equipment, automation equipment, railroad equipment,
shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronics and
communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper
and paper products, food processing, textiles, clothing, and other
consumer goods

Agriculture: accounts for only 1.5% of GDP; wide variety of crops and
livestock products

Illicit drugs: gateway country for Latin American cocaine entering the
European market; producer of synthetic drugs; transshipment point for
Southwest Asian heroin; money-laundering center

Economic aid:
donor: ODA and OOF commitments (1992-93), $3.2 billion

Currency: 1 British pound (#) = 100 pence

Exchange rates: British pounds (#) per US$1 - 0.6350 (January 1995),
0.6529 (1994), 0.6033 (1993), 0.5664 (1992), 0.5652 (1991), 0.5603
(1990)

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

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Railroads:
total: 16,888 km; note - several additional small standard-gauge and
narrow-gauge lines are privately owned and operated
broad gauge: 330 km 1.600-m gauge (190 km double track)
standard gauge: 16,558 km 1.435-m gauge (4,950 km electrified; 12,591
km double or multiple track)

Highways:
total: 360,047 km (includes Northern Ireland)
paved: 360,047 km (includes Northern Ireland; Great Britain has 3,100
km limited access divided highway)

Inland waterways: 2,291 total; British Waterways Board, 606 km; Port
Authorities, 706 km; other, 979 km

Pipelines: crude oil (almost all insignificant) 933 km; petroleum
products 2,993 km; natural gas 12,800 km

Ports: Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Grangemouth, Hull, Leith,
Liverpool, London, Manchester, Medway, Sullom Voe, Tees, Tyne

Merchant marine:
total: 155 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,249,823 GRT/3,978,336
DWT
ships by type: bulk 11, cargo 24, chemical tanker 2, container 23,
liquefied gas tanker 3, oil tanker 56, passenger 7, passenger-cargo 1,
refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 13, short-sea passenger
13, specialized tanker 1

Airports:
total: 505
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 10
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 30
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