National product: GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $514.9 billion (1992) National product real growth rate: 3.41% (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $2.4 billion, about 5% [4.89%] Average price rise for 40 year period 1970-1989 is about 5% of GDP; most important timber product Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-79), $24 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and
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