_#_Agriculture: imports about 80% of its food needs; principal crops and livestock include rice, cassava, bananas, buffaloes, and pigs
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $20.6 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $143.7 million
_#_Currency: Bruneian dollar (plural—dollars); 1 Bruneian dollar (B$) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: Bruneian dollars (B$) per US$1—1.7454 (January 1991), 1.8125 (1990), 1.9503 (1989), 2.0124 (1988), 2.1060 (1987), 2.1774 (1986), 2.2002 (1985); note—the Bruneian dollar is at par with the Singapore dollar
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*Communications #_Railroads: 13 km 0.610-meter narrow-gauge private line
_#_Highways: 1,090 km total; 370 km paved (bituminous treated) and another 52 km under construction, 720 km gravel or unimproved
_#_Inland waterways: 209 km; navigable by craft drawing less than 1.2 meters
_#_Ports: Kuala Belait, Muara
_#_Merchant marine: 7 liquefied gas carriers (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 348,476 GRT/340,635 DWT