of minerals and offshore crude oil 1,738 km, petroleum products 5%, food 10%, light industry 21.5%, food and beverages, chemicals, textiles, precious and semiprecious stones Land use: arable land: 3% permanent crops: 20% meadows and pastures: 7% forest and woodland: 14% other: 22% Irrigated land: NA km2 Environment: deforestation *Gabon, People Population: 1,177,584,537 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 2.8% (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 5.81 children born/woman (1993 est.) Birth rate: 33.12 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 6.54 children born/woman (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: NA children born/woman (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.86 children born/woman (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 51.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: 5.77 billion leva, NA% of
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