llion
expenditures: $482.7 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1993 est.)

Exports: $345.3 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: fish and fish products 88%, animal feedstuffs, transport
equipment (ships) (1989)
partners: Denmark 20%, Germany 18.3%, UK 14.2%, France 11.2%, Spain
7.9%, US 4.5%

Imports: $234.4 million (c.i.f., 1993 est.)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment 24.4%, manufactures
24%, food and livestock 19%, fuels 12%, chemicals 6.5%
partners: Denmark 43.8%, Norway 19.8%, Sweden 4.9%, Germany 4.2%, US
1.3%

External debt: $1.2 billion (1993 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 90,000 kW
production: 200 million kWh
consumption per capita: 3,953 kWh (1992)

Industries: fishing, shipbuilding, handicrafts

Agriculture: accounts for 27% of GDP; principal crops - potatoes and
vegetables; livestock - sheep; annual fish catch about 360,000 metric
tons

Economic aid:
recipient: receives an annual subsidy from Denmark of about $130
million

Currency: 1 Danish krone (DKr) = 100 oere

Exchange rates: Danish kroner (DKr) per US$1 - 6.034 (January 1995),
6.361 (1994), 6.484 (1993), 6.036 (1992), 6.396 (1991), 6.189 (1990)

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

@Faroe Islands:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 200 km
paved: NA
unpaved: NA

Ports: Klaksvick, Torshavn, Tvoroyri

Merchant marine:
total: 7 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 19,879 GRT/18,444 DWT
ships by type: cargo 5, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1, short-sea passenger
1

Airports:
total: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1

@Faroe Islands:Communications

Telephone system: 27,900 telephones; good international
communications; fair domestic facilities
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 3 coaxial submarine cables

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 3 repeaters 10, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 3 (repeaters 29)
televisions: NA

@Faroe Islands:Defense Forces

Branches: no organized native military forces; only a small Police
Force and Coast Guard are maintained

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

Note: defense is the responsibility of Denmark

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FIJI

@Fiji:Geography

Location: Oceania, island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about
two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zeala