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Industries: mining (diamonds); small-scale manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear); petroleum refining Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity--production: 230 million kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 230 million kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: rice, coffee, cocoa, palm kernels, palm oil, peanuts; poultry, cattle, sheep, pigs; fish Exports: $41 million (f.o.b., 1998) Exports--commodities: diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish Exports--partners: Belgium 49%, Spain 10%, US 8%, UK 3% (1997) Imports: $166 million (f.o.b., 1998) Imports--commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels and lubricants Imports--partners: UK 16%, US 9%, Cote d'Ivoire 8%, Belgium-Luxembourg 3% (1997) Debt--external: $1.15 billion (1998) Economic aid--recipient: $203.7 million (1995) Currency: 1 leone (Le) = 100 cents Exchange rates: leones (Le) per US$1--1,630.5 (January 1999), 1,597.2 (1998), 981.48 (1997), 920.73 (1996), 755.22 (1995), 586.74 (1994) Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June Communications Telephones: 17,526 (1991 est.) Telephone system: marginal telephone and telegraph service domestic: national microwave radio relay system made unserviceable by military activities international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave NA Radios: 980,000 (1992 est.) Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997) Televisions: 45,000 (1992 est.) Transportation Railways: total: 84 km used on a limited basis because the mine at Marampa is closed narrow gauge: 84 km 1.067-m gauge Highways: total: 11,700 km paved: 1,287 km unpaved: 10,413 km (1996 est.) Waterways: 800 km; 600 km navigable year round Ports and harbors: Bonthe, Freetown, Pepel Merchant marine: none Airports: 10 (1998 est.) Airports--with paved runways: total: 2 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1998 est.) Airports--with unpaved runways: total: 8 914 to 1,523 m: 5 under 914 m: 3 (1998 est.) Heliports: 1 (1998 est.) Military Military branches: Army Military manpower--availability: males age 15-49: 1,119,239 (1999 est.) Military manpower--fit for military service:
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