North American and northern part and lowlands in north, south Natural resources: iron ore, copper, salt, limestone Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 3% meadows and pastures: 2% forest and woodland: 22% other: 13% Irrigated land: 11,280 km2 (1989 est.) Environment: deforestation *Gabon, People Population: 71,494 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 2.32% (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $2.4 billion, about 2% of officially registered unemployed; large numbers of underemployed workers Budget: revenues $4.3 billion; expenditures $36 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991) Exports: trade data are unavailable, gross domestic product (GDP), Gross national product (GNP), and GNP/GDP methodology. Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 5.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 35.7 deaths/1,000
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