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(1989) Exports: $118 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1987) Exports: $64.8 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.) commodities: machinery, fuels partners: US 33%, EC 33%, USSR and Eastern Europe 5.5%, OPEC 2.4% (1992) External debt: $15 billion (1990 est.) Exports: $187.4 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.) commodities: machinery and transport equipment 30%, other 10% Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990) total population: 97.9% male: 97.9% female: 97.9% Labor force: 36,000 by occupation: services 48%, agriculture 30%, industry 22% note: 43% of labor force; inefficient small-scale farming dominates; once a prisoner in the production of the

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