: $493.1 million (1995)

Currency: 1 kwanza (NKz) = 100 lwei

Exchange rates: kwanza (NKz) per US$1--350,000 (February 1999),
392,824 (1998), 229,040 (1997), 128,029 (1996), 2,750 (1995), 59,515
(1994); note--readjusted Kwanzas per US$1,000 through 1994, per US$1
thereafter

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 78,000 (1991 est.)

Telephone system: telephone service limited mostly to government
and business use; HF radiotelephone used extensively for military
links
domestic: limited system of wire, microwave radio relay, and
tropospheric scatter
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 8 (1998)

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 7 (1997)

Televisions: 50,000 (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 2,952 km (limited trackage in use because of land mines still
in place from the civil war) (1997 est.)
narrow gauge: 2,798 km 1.067-m gauge; 154 km 0.600-m gauge

Highways:
total: 76,626 km
paved: 19,156 km
unpaved: 57,470 km (1997 est.)

Waterways: 1,295 km navigable

Pipelines: crude oil 179 km

Ports and harbors: Ambriz, Cabinda, Lobito, Luanda, Malongo,
Namibe, Porto Amboim, Soyo

Merchant marine:
total: 10 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 48,384 GRT/78,357 DWT
ships by type: cargo 9, oil tanker 1 (1998 est.)

Airports: 252 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 32
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 9
1,524 to 2,437 m: 12
914 to 1,523 m: 6
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 220
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 32
914 to 1,523 m: 100
under 914 m: 82 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces,
National Police Force

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 2,544,203 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,280,377 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 111,168 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $1 billion (FY97/98)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 25% (FY97/98)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

Illicit drugs: increasingly used as a transshipment point for
cocaine and heroin destined for West