Agriculture: accounts for 12% of GDP; large areas devoted to livestock grazing; wheat, rice, corn, sorghum; fishing; self-sufficient in most basic foodstuffs
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $105 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $420 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $69 million
Currency: 1 Uruguayan peso ($Ur) = 100 centesimos
Exchange rates: Uruguayan pesos ($Ur) per US$1 - 5.6 (January 1995),
4.4710 (January 1994), 3.9484 (1993), 3.0270 (1992), 2.0188 (1991),
1.1710 (1990)
note: on 1 March 1993 the former New Peso (N$Ur) was replaced as
Uruguay's unit of currency by the Peso which is equal to 1,000 of the
New Pesos
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Uruguay:Transportation
Railroads: total: 3,000 km standard gauge: 3,000 km 1.435-m gauge
Highways: total: 49,900 km paved: 6,700 km unpaved: gravel 3,000 km; earth 40,200 km
Inland waterways: 1,600 km; used by coastal and shallow-draft river
craft
Ports: Fray Bentos, Montevideo, Nueva Palmira, Paysandu, Punta del
Este