many, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa

Imports: $356 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: consumer goods, foodstuffs, mining and other machinery,
transport equipment, fuels
partners: South Africa, US, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK

External debt: $9.2 billion (May 1992 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate -20% (1993); accounts for 16% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 2,830,000 kW
production: 6.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 133 kWh (1993)

Industries: mining, mineral processing, consumer products (including
textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods and beverages),
cement, diamonds

Agriculture: cash crops - coffee, palm oil, rubber, quinine; food
crops - cassava, bananas, root crops, corn

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for domestic
consumption

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.1 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $6.9 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $35 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $263 million
note: except for humanitarian aid to private organizations, no US
assistance has been given to Zaire since 1992

Currency: 1 zaire (Z) = 100 makuta

Exchange rates: new zaires (Z) per US$1 - 3,275.71 (December 1994),
1,194.12 (1994), 2.51 (1993); zaire (Z) per US$1 - 645,549 (1992),
15,587 (1991), 719 (1990)
note: on 22 October 1993 the new zaire, equal to 3,000,000 old zaires,
was introduced

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 5,138 km; note - severely reduced trackage in use because of
civil strife
narrow gauge: 3,987 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km
1.000-m gauge; 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge

Highways:
total: 146,500 km
paved: 2,800 km
unpaved: gravel, improved earth 46,200 km; unimproved earth 97,500 km

Inland waterways: 15,000 km including the Congo, its tributaries, and
unconnected lakes

Pipelines: petroleum products 390 km

Ports: Banana, Boma, Bukavu, Bumba, Goma, Kalemie, Kindu, Kinshasa,
Kisangani, Matadi, Mbandaka

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 270
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 4
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 15
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
with paved runways under 914 m: 97
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 22
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 127

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