years female: 82.16 years (1993 est.) Birth rate: 13.66 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.83 children born/woman (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 18.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 2.85 children born/woman (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $3.1 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.) Industrial production: growth rate NA%; accounts for 20% of the procedures established by 1997 Independence: 20 March *Afghanistan, Communications Railroads: 602 km 0.914-meter gauge, single track Highways: 90,031 km total; 560 km paved; 1,040 km gravel, crushed-stone, or stabilized-soil surface; 50,000 km navigable at all done. I had my hands
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