and nickel 6%, meat 5%
partners: Switzerland, UK, SACU (Southern African Customs Union)

Imports: $1.8 billion (c.i.f., 1992)
commodities: foodstuffs, vehicles and transport equipment, textiles,
petroleum products
partners: Switzerland, SACU (Southern African Customs Union), UK, US

External debt: $344 million (December 1991)

Industrial production: growth rate 4.6% (FY92/93); accounts for about
43% of GDP, including mining

Electricity:
capacity: 220,000 kW
production: 900 million kWh
consumption per capita: 694 kWh (1993)

Industries: mining of diamonds, copper, nickel, coal, salt, soda ash,
potash; livestock processing

Agriculture: sorghum, maize, millet, pulses, groundnuts, beans,
cowpeas, sunflower seeds; livestock

Economic aid:
recipient: US aid (1992), $13 million; Norway (1992), $16 million;
Sweden (1992), $15.5 million; Germany (1992), $3.6 million; EC/Lome-IV
(1992), $3 million-$6 million in grants; $28.7 million in long-term
projects (1992)

Currency: 1 pula (P) = 100 thebe

Exchange rates: pula (P) per US$1 - 1.7086 (January 1995), 2.6976
(November 1994), 2.4190 (1993), 2.1327 (1992), 2.0173 (1991), 1.8601
(1990)

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

@Botswana:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 888 km
narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (1992)

Highways:
total: 11,514 km
paved: 1,600 km
unpaved: crushed stone, gravel 1,700 km; improved earth 5,177 km;
unimproved earth 3,037 km

Ports: none

Airports:
total: 100
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
with paved runways under 914 m: 23
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 5
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 62

@Botswana:Communications

Telephone system: 26,000 telephones; sparse system; telephone density
- 18.67 telephones/1,000 persons
local: NA
intercity: small system of open wire lines, microwave radio relay
links, and a few radio communication stations
international: 1 INTELSAT (Indian Ocean) earth station

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 13, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 0
televisions: NA

@Botswana:Defense Forces

Branches: Botswana Defense Force (includes Army and Air Wing),
Botswana National Police

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 306,878; males fit for military
service 161,376; males reach military