mports: $13 billion (1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment, vehicles and
aircraft, petroleum, consumer goods, plastics

Imports--partners: Australia 27%, US 19%, Japan 12%, UK 6% (1997)

Debt--external: $53.2 billion (March 1998)

Economic aid--donor: ODA, $123 million (1995)

Currency: 1 New Zealand dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1--1.85 (February
1999), 1.8629 (1998), 1.5083 (1997), 1.4543 (1996), 1.5235 (1995),
1.6844 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 1.7 million (1986 est.)

Telephone system: excellent international and domestic systems
domestic: NA
international: submarine cables to Australia and Fiji; satellite
earth stations--2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 64, FM 2, shortwave 0

Radios: 3.215 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 41 (in addition, there are 52
medium-power repeaters and over 650 low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 1.53 million (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 3,973 km
narrow gauge: 3,973 km 1.067-m gauge (519 km electrified)

Highways:
total: 92,200 km
paved: 53,568 km (including at least 144 km of expressways)
unpaved: 38,632 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: 1,609 km; of little importance to transportation

Pipelines: petroleum products 160 km; natural gas 1,000 km;
liquefied petroleum gas or LPG 150 km

Ports and harbors: Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Tauranga,
Wellington

Merchant marine:
total: 14 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 138,687 GRT/183,372 DWT
ships by type: bulk 4, cargo 1, liquefied gas tanker 1, oil tanker
3, railcar carrier 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 4 (1998 est.)

Airports: 111 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 44
over 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 29
under 914 m: 3 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 67
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 23
under 914 m: 43 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: New Zealand Army, Royal New Zealand Navy,
Royal New Zealand Air Force

Military manpower--military age: 20 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 943,624 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 793,814 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 26,046 (1999 est.)