rial 20.5%, technical, sales
16.4%, services 19.3%, farming 3.1%, precision production 13.8%,
operators, fabricators 26.9%

Unemployment rate: 14% (residents)

Budget:
revenues: $221 million
expenditures: $213 million, including capital expenditures of $17.7
million (1996)

Industries: tourism, construction, garments, handicrafts

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: NA kWh

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: NA%
nuclear: NA%
other: NA%

Electricity--consumption: NA kWh

Electricity--exports: NA kWh

Electricity--imports: NA kWh

Agriculture--products: coconuts, fruits, vegetables; cattle

Exports: $1 billion (1998)

Exports--commodities: garments

Exports--partners: US

Imports: $NA

Imports--commodities: food, construction equipment and materials,
petroleum products

Imports--partners: US, Japan

Debt--external: $NA

Economic aid--recipient: $21.1 million (1995)

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 October--30 September

Communications

Telephones: 13,618 (1993 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3

Radios: 15,460 (1995 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1 (on Saipan and one station
planned for Rota; in addition, two cable stations on Saipan provide
varied programming from satellite networks) (1997)

Televisions: 15,460 (1995 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 362 km (1991 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Waterways: none

Ports and harbors: Saipan, Tinian

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 5 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military--note: defense is the responsibility of the US

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

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Introduction

Background: Norway gained its independence from Sweden in 1905.
As a separate realm, Norway stayed free of World War I but suffered
German occupation in World War II.