beans, sesame
partners: Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia

Imports: $479.3 million (c.i.f., 1993)
commodities: cigarettes, construction materials, petroleum products,
machinery
partners: Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia

External debt: $383 million to OECD members (1993)

Industrial production: growth rate 7.9% (1993 est.); accounts for 8%
of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 40,000 kW
production: 160 million kWh
consumption per capita: 14 kWh (1993)

Industries: rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, rubber,
cement, gem mining

Agriculture: mainly subsistence farming except for rubber plantations;
main crops - rice, rubber, corn; food shortages - rice, meat,
vegetables, dairy products, sugar, flour

Illicit drugs: increasingly used as a transshipment country for heroin
produced in the Golden Triangle; growing money-laundering center;
high-level narcotics-related corruption in government; possible
small-scale heroin production; large producer of cannibis

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $725 million;
Western (non-US countries) (1970-89), $300 million; Communist
countries (1970-89), $1.8 billion; donor countries and multilateral
institutions pledged $880 million in assistance in 1992; IMF pledged
$120 million in aid for 1995-98

Currency: 1 new riel (CR) = 100 sen

Exchange rates: riels (CR) per US$1 - 2,470 (December 1993), 2,800
(September 1992), 500 (December 1991), 560 (1990), 159.00 (1988),
100.00 (1987)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Cambodia:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 655 km
narrow gauge: 655 km 1.000-m gauge

Highways:
total: 34,100 km (some roads in serious disrepair)
paved: bituminous 3,000 km
unpaved: crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth 3,100 km; unimproved
earth 28,000 km

Inland waterways: 3,700 km navigable all year to craft drawing 0.6
meters; 282 km navigable to craft drawing 1.8 meters

Ports: Kampong Saom (Sihanoukville), Kampot, Krong Kaoh Kong, Phnom
Penh

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 22
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 3
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 10

@Cambodia:Communications

Telephone system: NA telephones; service barely adequate for