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ment and other construction materials, sugar milling Industrial production growth rate: 0.4% (1995 est.) Electricity--production: 3.55 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 29.58% hydro: 70.42% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 3.488 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 157 million kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 95 million kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: bananas, rice, corn, coffee, sugarcane, vegetables; livestock; shrimp Exports: $6.68 billion (f.o.b., 1997) Exports--commodities: bananas 43%, shrimp 11%, sugar 4%, clothing 5%, coffee 2% Exports--partners: US 37%, EU, Central America and Caribbean Imports: $7.38 billion (f.o.b., 1997) Imports--commodities: capital goods 21%, crude oil 11%, foodstuffs 9%, consumer goods, chemicals Imports--partners: US 48%, EU, Central America and Caribbean, Japan Debt--external: $7.26 billion (1996 est.) Economic aid--recipient: $197.1 million (1995) Currency: 1 balboa (B) = 100 centesimos Exchange rates: balboas (B) per US$1--1.000 (fixed rate) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Telephones: 273,000 (1991 est.) Telephone system: domestic and international facilities well developed domestic: NA international: 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to the Central American Microwave System Radio broadcast stations: AM 91, FM 0, shortwave 0 Radios: 564,000 (1992 est.) Television broadcast stations: 9 (in addition, there are 17 repeaters) (1997) Televisions: 420,000 (1992 est.) Transportation Railways: total: 355 km broad gauge: 76 km 1.524-m gauge narrow gauge: 279 km 0.914-m gauge Highways: total: 11,100 km paved: 3,730 km (including 30 km of expressways) unpaved: 7,370 km (1996 est.) Waterways: 800 km navigable by shallow draft vessels; 82 km Panama Canal Pipelines: crude oil 130 km Ports and harbors: Balboa, Cristobal, Coco Solo, Manzanillo (part of Colon area), Vacamonte Merchant marine: total: 4,632 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 98,433,972 GRT/149,800,820 DWT ships by type: bulk 1,335, cargo 1,028, chemical tanker 288, combination bulk 68, combination ore/oil 15, container 507, liquefied gas tanker 176, livestock carrier 9, multifunction large-load carrier 6, oil tanker 498, passenger 41, passenger-cargo
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