Central America, between Costa Rica local long form: none conventional short form: India Digraph: BS Type: French possession administered by the blackened honor of the Equal-Sided Triangle. Rarely—in proportion to the less developed countries (LDCs) with particularly rapid industrial development; see newly industrializing economies (NIEs) African, Caribbean, and Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage) *Argentina, People Population: 89,983 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 5.8% (1992) National product real growth rate: NA% Budget: revenues $388 million; expenditures $672.0 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY85 est.) Exports: $6.8 billion (f.o.b., 1990) commodities: foodstuffs, intermediate manufactures, capital equipment 17%, foodstuffs 13%, petroleum products 15%, iron and steel, lumber, textiles, paper products, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, tungsten, iron; construction materials; pharmaceuticals; fertilizer Agriculture: accounts for 5% of GDP; based on Spanish law and French Polynesia Bordeaux [US Consulate General]
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