ed fish
partners: Germany 28%, Japan 15%, UK 9%, Austria 7%, China 7% (1992)

Imports: $2.65 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: textiles and other manufactured consumer goods, petroleum
products, sugar, grain, flour, other foodstuffs, cement, machinery,
chemicals
partners: US 16%, UK 7%, Japan 6%, France 6%, Italy 6% (1992)

External debt: $7 billion (1993)

Industrial production: growth rate NA%, accounts for 18% of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 810,000 kW
production: 1.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 149 kWh (1993)

Industries: crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale
production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing;
handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement

Agriculture: accounts for 26% of GDP; products - grain, fruits,
vegetables, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee, cotton, dairy,
poultry, meat, fish; not self-sufficient in grain

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $389 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $3.2 billion;
Communist countries (1970-89), $2.4 billion

Currency: Yemeni rial (new currency); 1 North Yemeni riyal (YR) = 100
fils; 1 South Yemeni dinar (YD) = 1,000 fils
note: following the establishment of the Republic of Yemen on 22 May
1990, the North Yemeni riyal and the South Yemeni dinar are to be
replaced with a new Yemeni rial

Exchange rates: Yemeni rials per US$1 - 12.0 (official); 90 (market
rate, December 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Yemen:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 51,390 km
paved: 4,830 km
unpaved: 46,560 km (1992 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 644 km; petroleum products 32 km

Ports: Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Mukalla, Mocha, Nishtun

Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 12,059 GRT/18,563 DWT
ships by type: cargo 1, oil tanker 2

Airports:
total: 46
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 4
with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 10
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 12

@Yemen:Communications

Telephone system: 65,000 telephones; since unification in 1990,
efforts are sti