million (1993 est.)

Exports: $4.4 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)
commodities: fish, bananas, hides and skins
partners: Netherlands, Portugal, Angola

Imports: $173 million (c.i.f., 1992 est.)
commodities: foodstuffs, consumer goods, industrial products,
transport equipment
partners: Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Spain

External debt: $156 million (1991)

Industrial production: growth rate 3.6% (1990 est.); accounts for 8%
of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 15,000 kW
production: 40 million kWh
consumption per capita: 73 kWh (1993)

Industries: fish processing, salt mining, garment industry, ship
repair, construction materials, food and beverage production

Agriculture: accounts for 20% of GDP (including fishing); largely
subsistence farming; bananas are the only export crop; other crops -
corn, beans, sweet potatoes, coffee; growth potential of agricultural
sector limited by poor soils and scanty rainfall; annual food imports
required; fish catch provides for both domestic consumption and small
exports

Illicit drugs: increasingly used as a transshipment point for illicit
drugs moving from Latin America and Africa destined for Western Europe

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY75-90), $93 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-90), $586 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $12 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $36 million

Currency: 1 Cape Verdean escudo (CVEsc) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Cape Verdean escudos (CVEsc) per US$1 - 85.537 (1st
Quarter 1994), 80.427 (1993), 68.018 (1992), 71.408 (1991), 70.031
(1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Cape Verde:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 1,100 km (1992)
paved: 680 km
unpaved: 420 km

Ports: Mindelo, Praia, Tarrafal

Merchant marine:
total: 7 (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 11,609 GRT/19,052 DWT cargo 6,
chemical tanker 1

Airports:
total: 6
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 5

@Cape Verde:Communications

Telephone system: over 1,700 telephones; telephine density - about 4
telephones/1,000 persons
local: NA
intercity: interisland microwave radio relay system, high frequency
radio links to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau
international: 2 coaxial submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
earth station

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 6, shortwave 0
radios: N