Exports: $693 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.) commodities: peanuts and peanut products, fish, cotton lint, beverages, agricultural machinery *Cuba, Economy Agriculture: accounts for 8% of GDP (1989 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 200% (1992 est.) National product real growth rate: 1.62% (1993 est.) Death rate: 5.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $NA, NA% of GDP *Saint Lucia, Communications Highways: 160 km earth (1990) Pipelines: crude oil 370 km, refined products 300 km, natural gas 241 km Ports: Asuncion, Villeta, Ciudad del Este Merchant marine: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,369 GRT/3,030 DWT Airports: total: 3 usable: 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 1 Telecommunications: excellent domestic and international drug markets; probable transit point for cocaine Economic aid: wheat from US, Turkey Currency: retaining Russian ruble as currency (January 1993) 125.0 (1992), 111.8 (1991), 39.533 (1990), 27.159 (1989), 10.000 (1988) Fiscal year: calendar year *Brazil,
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