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Название: The 1996 CIA World Factbook

Автор: United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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Жанр: Социология

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СКАЧАТЬ recovered with moderate 2.3% growth in 1994 and 1995. Belgium's public debt has risen to 140% of GDP, and the government is trying to control its expenditures to bring the figure more into line with other industrialized countries.

      GDP: purchasing power parity - $197 billion (1995 est.)

      GDP real growth rate: 2.3% (1995 est.)

      GDP per capita: $19,500 (1995 est.)

      GDP composition by sector: agriculture: 2% industry: 28% services: 70% (1994)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.6% (1995 est.)

      Labor force: 4.126 million by occupation: services 63.6%, industry 28%, construction 6.1%, agriculture 2.3% (1988)

      Unemployment rate: 14% (1995 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $NA

       expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

      Industries: engineering and metal products, motor vehicle

       assembly, processed food and beverages, chemicals, basic metals,

       textiles, glass, petroleum, coal

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity: capacity: 14,040,000 kW production: 66 billion kWh consumption per capita: 6,334 kWh (1993)

      Agriculture: sugar beets, fresh vegetables, fruits, grain, tobacco; beef, veal, pork, milk

      Illicit drugs: source of precursor chemicals for South American

       cocaine processors; transshipment point for cocaine entering the

       European market

      Exports: $108 billion (f.o.b., 1994) Belgium-Luxembourg Economic

       Union (BLEU)

       commodities: iron and steel, transportation equipment, tractors,

       diamonds, petroleum products

       partners: EU 67.2% (Germany 19%), US 5.8%, former Communist

       countries 1.4% (1994)

      Imports: $140 billion (c.i.f., 1994) Belgium-Luxembourg Economic

       Union

       commodities: fuels, grains, chemicals, foodstuffs

       partners: EU 68% (Germany 22.1%), US 8.8%, former Communist

       countries 0.8% (1994)

      External debt: $31.3 billion (1992 est.)

      Economic aid: donor: ODA, $808 million (1993)

      Currency: 1 Belgian franc (BF) = 100 centimes

      Exchange rates: Belgian francs (BF) per US$1 - 30.036 (January 1996), 29.480 (1995), 33.456 (1994), 34.597 (1993), 32.150 (1992), 34.148 (1991)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      Transportation———————

      Railways:

       total: 3,396 km (2,363 km electrified; 2,563 km double track)

       standard gauge: 3,396 km 1.435-m gauge (1995)

      Highways:

       total: 137,876 km

       paved: 129,603 km (including 1,667 km of expressways)

       unpaved: 8,273 km (1992 est.)

      Waterways: 2,043 km (1,528 km in regular commercial use)

      Pipelines: crude oil 161 km; petroleum products 1,167 km; natural

       gas 3,300 km

      Ports: Antwerp, Brugge, Gent, Hasselt, Liege, Mons, Namur,

       Oostende, Zeebrugge

      Merchant marine:

       total: 23 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 64,220 GRT/83,360 DWT

       ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 8, chemical tanker 5, liquefied gas

       tanker 3, oil tanker 6 (1995 est.)

      Airports:

       total: 42

       with paved runways over 3 047 m: 6

       with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 9

       with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 2

       with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 1

       with paved runways under 914 m: 21

       with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 3 (1995 est.)

      Heliports: 1 (1995 est.)

      Communications———————

      Telephones: 5.691 million (1992 est.)

      Telephone system: highly developed, technologically advanced, and

       completely automated domestic and international telephone and

       telegraph facilities

       domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; extensive cable

       network; limited microwave radio relay network

       international: 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2

       Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Eutelsat

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 39, shortwave 0

      Radios: 100,000 (1992 est.)

      Television broadcast stations: 32 (1987 est.)

      Televisions: 3,315,662 (1993 est.)

      Defense———

      Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie

      Manpower availability: males age 15–49: 2,571,588 males fit for military service: 2,135,375 males reach military age (19) annually: 61,986 (1996 est.)

      Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $4.6 billion, 1.7% of GDP (1995)

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      @Belize———

      Map—

      Location: 17 15 N, 88 45 W—Middle America, bordering the

       Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Mexico

      Flag——

      Description: СКАЧАТЬ