t real growth rate: 2% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $500 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Exports: $NA
commodities: NA
partners: NA

Imports: $NA
commodities: NA
partners: NA

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity:
capacity: NA kW
production: NA kWh
consumption per capita: NA kWh

Industries: food processing, beverages, clothing and textiles

Agriculture: products - sorghum, livestock (including goats), fish,
lentils, vegetables, maize, cotton, tobacco, coffee, sisal (for making
rope)

Economic aid: $NA

Currency: 1 birr (Br) = 100 cents; at present, Ethiopian currency used

Exchange rates: 1 birr (Br) per US$1 - 5.9500 (January 1995), 5.9500
(1994), 5.000 (fixed rate 1992-93); note - official rate pegged to US$

Fiscal year: NA

@Eritrea:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 307 km; note - nonoperational since 1978; links Ak'ordat and
Asmara (formerly Asmera) with the port of Massawa (formerly Mits'iwa)
narrow gauge: 307 km 1.000-m gauge (1993 est.)

Highways:
total: 3,845 km
paved: 807 km
unpaved: gravel 840 km; improved earth 402 km; unimproved earth 1,796
km

Ports: Assab (Aseb), Massawa (Mits'iwa)

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 20
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 6
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 7

@Eritrea:Communications

Telephone system: NA
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: NA

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

Television:
broadcast stations: NA
televisions: NA

@Eritrea:Defense Forces

Branches: Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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ESTONIA

@Estonia:Geography

Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of
Finland, between Latvia and Russia

Map references: Europe

Area:
total area: 45,100 sq km
land area: 43,200 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than New Hampshire and Vermont
combined
note: includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea