artners: India 87%, Bangladesh

Imports: $97.6 million (c.i.f., FY93/94 est.)
commodities: fuel and lubricants, grain, machinery and parts,
vehicles, fabrics, rice
partners: India 79%, Japan, UK, Germany, US

External debt: $141 million (October 1994)

Industrial production: growth rate 7.6% (1992 est.); accounts for 18%
of GDP; primarily cottage industry and home based handicrafts

Electricity:
capacity: 360,000 kW
production: 1.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 143 kWh (1993)
note: Bhutan exports electricity to India

Industries: cement, wood products, processed fruits, alcoholic
beverages, calcium carbide

Agriculture: rice, corn, root crops, citrus fruit, dairy products,
foodgrains, eggs

Economic aid:
recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $115 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $11
million

Currency: 1 ngultrum (Nu) = 100 chetrum; note - Indian currency is
also legal tender

Exchange rates: ngultrum (Nu) per US$1 - 31.374 (January 1995), 31.374
(1994), 30.493 (1993), 25.918 (1992), 22.742 (1991), 17.504 (1990);
note - the Bhutanese ngultrum is at par with the Indian rupee

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

@Bhutan:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 2,165 km
paved: NA
unpaved: gravel 1,703 km
undifferentiated: 462 km

Ports: none

Airports:
total: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1

@Bhutan:Communications

Telephone system: NA telephones; domestic telephone service is very
poor with very few telephones in use
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: international telephone and telegraph service is by
land line through India; an earth station was planned (1990)

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1990)
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 0 (1990)
televisions: NA

@Bhutan:Defense Forces

Branches: Royal Bhutan Army, Palace Guard, Militia, Royal Bhutan
Police

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 434,586; males fit for military
service 232,121; males reach military age (18) annually 17,365 (1995
est.)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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BOLIVIA

@Bolivia:Geography

Location: Central South America, southwest of Brazil

Map references: South America

Area:
total area: 1,098,580 sq km
land area