Imports: $1.14 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: food, clothing, farm equipment, petroleum
partners: South Africa, UK, France, Japan, Portugal
External debt: $5 billion (1992 est.)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 metical (Mt) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: meticais (Mt) per US$1 - 10,908.0 (December 1995), 9,024.3 (1995), 6,038.6 (1994), 3,874.2 (1993), 2,516.5 (1992), 1,434.5 (1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Transportation ———————
Railways: total: 3,131 km narrow gauge: 2,988 km 1.067-m gauge; 143 km 0.762-m gauge (1994)
Highways:
total: 27,287 km
paved: 4,693 km
unpaved: 22,594 km (1991 est.)
note: highway traffic impeded by land mines not removed at end of
civil war
Waterways: about 3,750 km of navigable routes