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1994 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 11% (1991 est.); accounts for about
15% of GDP
Electricity:
capacity: 55,000 kW
production: 100 million kWh
consumption per capita: 20 kWh (1993)
Industries: light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap;
assembly of imported components; public works construction; food
processing
Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; cash crops - coffee, cotton,
tea; food crops - corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc;
livestock - meat, milk, hides and skins
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $71 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $10.2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $32 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $175 million
Currency: 1 Burundi franc (FBu) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Burundi francs (FBu) per US$1 - 248.51 (December
1994), 252.66 (1994), 242.78 (1993), 208.30 (1992), 181.51 (1991),
171.26 (1990), 158.67 (1989), 140.40 (1988)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Burundi:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways:
total: 5,900 km
paved: 640 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone 2,260 km; improved, unimproved earth
3,000 km (1990)
Inland waterways: Lake Tanganyika
Ports: Bujumbura
Airports:
total: 4
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
@Burundi:Communications
Telephone system: 8,000 telephones; primative system; telephone
density - 1.3 telephones/1,000 persons
local: NA
intercity: sparse system of wire, radiocommunications, and
low-capacity microwave radio relay links
international: 1 INTELSAT (Indian Ocean) earth station
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 2, shortwave 0
radios: NA
Television:
broadcast stations: 1
televisions: NA
@Burundi:Defense Forces
Branches: Army (includes naval and air units), paramilitary
Gendarmerie
Manpower availability: males age 15-49 1,350,042; males fit for
military service 705,864; males reach military age (16) annually
73,308 (1995 est.)
Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $25 million, 2.6% of
GDP (1993)
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CAMBODIA
@Cambodia:Geography
Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, between
Thailand and Vietnam
Map references: Southeast Asia
Area:
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