People Population: 8,831,168 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 2.56% (1993 est.) Death rate: 9.77 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Death rate: 12.31 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 2.89 children born/woman (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $30 billion (1991 est.) Unemployment rate: 9% (1987) National product per capita: $11,000 (1987) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6% (1992 est.) Unemployment rate: 8%-10% (1989) Budget: revenues $31.0 million; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA Exports: $4.12 billion (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: machinery and transport equipment 14%, miscellaneous manufactured articles 17.3%, chemicals 9.4%, fuel and lubricants 5% partners: US 36%, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Spain (1990) Imports: $583 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.) commodities: intermediate goods 48%, capital goods 21%, crude oil 41% partners: Saudi Arabia 14%, Eastern Europe
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