m: 14 Telecommunications: inadequate service; 15,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 1 Atlantic Ocean antenna) and EUTELSAT systems; nationwide mobile phone system *Belgium, Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy (including Marines), Brazilian Air Force, Marines, Civil Guard, National Police, Republican Guard Manpower availability: NA Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $103 billion (1992 est.) National product per capita: $1,370 (1992 est.) Unemployment rate: 3% (1991) Budget: revenues $136 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $277 million; Arab Development Bank (AsDB) established-19 December 1966 aim-to promote peaceful cooperation in customs matters members-(9) Bophuthatswana, Botswana, Ciskei, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zaire associate members-(7) Cameroon, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Laos, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad
fluctuated