_#_Industries: meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products, mining (copper, lead, zinc, diamond, uranium)
_#_Agriculture: mostly subsistence farming; livestock raising major source of cash income; crops—millet, sorghum, peanuts; fish catch potential of over 1 million metric tons not being fulfilled, 1987 catch reaching only 520,000 metric tons; not self-sufficient in food
_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $47.2 million
_#_Currency: South African rand (plural—rand); 1 South African rand (R) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: South African rand (R) per US$1—2.625 (January 1991), 2.5863 (1990), 2.6166 (1989), 2.2611 (1988), 2.0350 (1987), 2.2685 (1986), 2.1911 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
_*Communications #_Railroads: 2,341 km 1.067-meter gauge, single track
_#_Highways: 54,500 km; 4,079 km paved, 2,540 km gravel, 47,881 km earth roads and tracks
_#_Ports: Luderitz; primary maritime outlet is Walvis Bay (South Africa)
_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft