The 1997 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ another year of negative growth (minus 5%), and inflation near 700% in 1997, assuming introduction of a currency board in July of 1997.

      GDP: purchasing power parity - $39.9 billion (1996 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate: −10% (1996 est.)

      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $4,630 (1996 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12.6% industry: 35.7% services: 51.7% (1994)

      Inflation rate - consumer price index: 311% (1996)

      Labor force: total: 3.57 million (1996 est.) by occupation : industry 41%, agriculture 18%, other 41% (1992)

      Unemployment rate: 12.5% (1996 est.)

      Budget: revenues: $3 billion expenditures : $4.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1996 est.)

      Industries: machine building and metal working, food processing, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, ferrous and nonferrous metals

      Industrial production growth rate: −6.5% (1996 est.)

      Electricity - capacity: 12.09 million kW (1994)

      Electricity - production: 36.07 billion kWh (1994)

      Electricity - consumption per capita: 4,491 kWh (1995 est.)

      Agriculture - products: grain, oilseed, vegetables, fruits, tobacco; livestock

      Exports: total value: $4.2 billion (f.o.b., 1996 est.) commodities : machinery and equipment 12.8%; agriculture and food 21.9%; textiles and apparel 14%; metals and ores 19.7%; chemicals 16.9%; minerals and fuels 9.3% (1995) partners: OECD 50.0% (EU 37.2%); CIS and Central and Eastern Europe 32.4%; Arab countries 5.8%; other 11.8% (1995)

      Imports: total value: $4.1 billion (c.i.f., 1996 est.) commodities: fuels, minerals, and raw materials 30.1%; machinery and equipment 23.6%; textiles and apparel 11.6%; agricultural products 10.8%; metals and ores 6.8%; chemicals 12.3%; other 4.8% (1995) partners : OECD 45.5% (EU 38.1%); CIS and Central and Eastern European countries 41.1%; Arab countries 1.8%; other 11.6% (1995)

      Debt - external: $9.3 billion (1996 est.)

      Economic aid: NA

      Currency: 1 lev (Lv) = 100 stotinki

      Exchange rates: leva (Lv) per US$1 - 483.4 (1996), 70.7 (1995), 54.2 (1994), 27.1 (1993), 23.3 (1992)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      @Bulgaria:Communications

      Telephones: 2,773,293 (1993 est.)

      Telephone system: almost two-thirds of the lines are residential; 67% of Sofia households have telephones (November 1988 est.) domestic: extensive but antiquated transmission system of coaxial cable and microwave radio relay; telephone service is available in most villages international : direct dialing to 36 countries; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean Region); Intelsat available through a Greek earth station

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 20, FM 15, shortwave 0

      Radios: NA

      Television broadcast stations: 29 (Russian repeater in Sofia 1)

      Televisions: 2.1 million (May 1990 est.)

      @Bulgaria:Transportation

      Railways: total : 4,292 km standard gauge: 4,047 km 1.435-m gauge (2,650 km electrified; 917 double track) other gauge: 245 km 0.760-m gauge (1995)

      Highways: total: 36,777 km paved: 33,798 km (including 314 km of expressways) unpaved : 2,979 km (1995 est.)

      Waterways: 470 km (1987)

      Pipelines: crude oil 193 km; petroleum products 525 km; natural gas 1,400 km (1992)

      Ports and harbors: Burgas, Lom, Nesebur, Ruse, Varna, Vidin

      Merchant marine: total: 99 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,063,367 GRT/1,596,438 DWT ships by type: bulk 45, cargo 25, chemical tanker 4, container 2, oil tanker 12, passenger-cargo 1, railcar carrier 2, refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 6, short-sea passenger 1 note : Bulgaria owns an additional 6 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 151,855 DWT operating under the registries of Liberia and Malta (1996 est.)

      Airports: 355 (1994 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 116 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m : 17 1,524 to 2,437 m: 10 under 914 m: 88 (1994 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 239 2,438 to 3,047 m : 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 10 under 914 m: 226 (1994 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Border

       Troops, Internal Troops

      Military manpower - military age: 19 years of age

      Military manpower - availability: males age 15–49: 2,052,731 (1997 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 1,711,729 (1997 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 62,908 (1997 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: $418.6 million (1996)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.0% to 2.5% (1996)

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes - international: none

      Illicit drugs: major European transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and, to a lesser degree, South American cocaine for the European market; limited producer of precursor chemicals; significant producer of amphetamines, much of which are consumed in the Middle East ______________________________________________________________________

      BURKINA FASO

      @Burkina Faso:Geography

      Location: Western Africa, north of Ghana

      Geographic coordinates: 13 00 N, 2 00 W

      Map references: Africa

      Area: total: 274,200 sq km land : 273,800 sq km water: 400 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly larger than Colorado

      Land boundaries:

       total: 3,192 km

       border countries: Benin 306 km, Ghana 548 km, Cote d'Ivoire 584 km,

       Mali 1,000 km, Niger 628 km, Togo 126 km

      Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)

      Maritime claims: none (landlocked)

      Climate: tropical; warm, dry winters; СКАЧАТЬ