11.6% External debt: $2.3 billion (1991 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.1% (1992) Unemployment rate: NA% National product per capita: $1,500 (1992 est.) Electricity: 1,600,000 kW capacity; 230 million kWh produced, 2,990 kWh per capita (1991) Industries: light construction, shirts, soap, beer, fisheries, shrimp processing Agriculture: accounts for about 40% of GDP; largely subsistence farming; livestock raising (cattle, sheep, goats); crops - cassava, potatoes, corn, millet, pulses; livestock and livestock raising (cattle, sheep, goats); crops - coconuts, cinnamon, vanilla; other products - cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-81), $34 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $7.5 billion; expenditures $18.0 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1993) Exports: $6.8 billion (convertible currency, July 1989) Member of: APEC, AsDB, ASEAN, C, CCC, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, LORCS, NAM, OAPEC, OAU, OIC,
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