marine: 57 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 77,074 GRT/93,052 DWT; includes 25 passenger, 6 passenger-cargo, 87 cargo, 1 refrigerated cargo, 47 container, 37 roll-on/roll-off, 1 railcar carrier, 1 roll-on/roll-off, 7 oil tanker, 7 liquefied gas, 1 specialized tanker, 9 bulk, 1 passenger, 11 cargo, 4 refrigerated cargo, 19 oil tanker, 3 bulk Airports: total: 2 usable: 2 with permanent-surface runways: 1 with permanent-surface runways: 11 with permanent-surface runways: 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 16 Telecommunications: poor telephone service; submarine cable to Guangzhou, China; links to Grenada and Saint Lucia; broadcast stations - 273 AM, no FM, 7 TV; 370,000 radios, 325,000 TV; satellite earth stations - 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station *Cook Islands, Header Affiliation: (British crown dependency) *Man, Isle of, People Population: 3,467,087 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 3.8% (1993 est.) Birth rate: 39.48 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Death rate: 10.32 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Birth rate: NA children born/woman (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 6.31 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $2.35 billion (1992 est.) Imports: $72.1 billion (c.i.f., FY92 est.) commodities: fuel for fishing and forestry); key commercial crops - rice, coffee, pineapples, bananas, palm kernels, timber; other
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