The 1997 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Trade with Russia and the other former Soviet republics is declining in importance while trade is building up with the nations of Europe, Turkey, Iran and the UAE.

      GDP: purchasing power parity - $11.9 billion (1996 estimate as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1994)

      GDP - real growth rate: 1.2% (1996 est.)

      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,550 (1996 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 26% industry : 30% services: 44% (1995 est.)

      Inflation rate - consumer price index: 20% (1996 est.)

      Labor force: total: 2.789 million by occupation: agriculture and forestry 32%, industry and construction 26%, other 42% (1990)

      Unemployment rate: 1.1% includes officially registered unemployed; also large numbers of unregistered unemployed and underemployed workers (December 1996)

      Budget: revenues: $565 million expenditures: $682 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1996 est.)

      Industries: petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield equipment; steel, iron ore, cement; chemicals and petrochemicals; textiles

      Industrial production growth rate: −8% (1996 est.)

      Electricity - capacity: 5.24 million kW (1994)

      Electricity - production: 16.63 billion kWh (1994)

      Electricity - consumption per capita: 2,200 kWh (1996 est.)

      Agriculture - products: cotton, grain, rice, grapes, fruit, vegetables, tea, tobacco; cattle, pigs, sheep, goats

      Exports: total value : $700 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.) commodities: oil and gas, chemicals, oilfield equipment, textiles, cotton partners: CIS, European countries, Turkey

      Imports: total value: $900 million (c.i.f., 1996 est.) commodities : machinery and parts, consumer durables, foodstuffs, textiles partners: CIS, European countries, Turkey

      Debt - external: $100 million (of which $75 million to Russia)

      Economic aid: recipient : ODA, $14 million (1993) note: commitments, 1992–95, $1,000 million ($185 million in disbursements); wheat from Turkey

      Currency: 1 manat = 100 gopik

      Exchange rates: manats per US$1 - 4,230 (November 1996), 4,375 (April 1996), 4,500 (April 1995), 4,168 (end of December 1994)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      @Azerbaijan:Communications

      Telephones: 710,000 (1991 est.)

      Telephone system: 202,000 persons waiting for telephone installations (January 1991 est.) domestic: telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate; a joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system in the Baku area is operational international: cable and microwave radio relay connections to former Soviet republics; connection through Moscow international gateway switch to other countries; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat and 1 Intersputnik (Intelsat provides service to Turkey and through Turkey to 200 more countries; Intersputnik provides direct service to New York)

      Radio broadcast stations: 1 state-owned radio broadcast station

      Radios: NA

      Television broadcast stations: 2 note: domestic and Russian TV programs are received locally and Turkish and Iranian TV is received from an Intelsat satellite through a receive-only earth station

      Televisions: NA

      @Azerbaijan:Transportation

      Railways: total: 2,125 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines broad gauge: 2,125 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (1993)

      Highways: total: 57,770 km paved: 54,188 km unpaved: 3,582 km (1995 est.)

      Pipelines: crude oil 1,130 km; petroleum products 630 km; natural gas 1,240 km

      Ports and harbors: Baku (Baki)

      Airports: 69 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 29 over 3,047 m : 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6 1,524 to 2,437 m: 17 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 1 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total : 40 914 to 1,523 m: 7 under 914 m: 33 (1996 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Border

       Guards

      Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age

      Military manpower - availability: males age 15–49 : 1,982,747 (1997 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 1,596,087 (1997 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 69,524 (1997 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: 33.5 billion manats (1994); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA%

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes - international: Armenia supports ethnic Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in the longstanding, separatist conflict against the Azerbaijani Government; Caspian Sea boundaries are not yet determined among Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan

      Illicit drugs: limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program; transshipment point for opiates to Western Europe ______________________________________________________________________

      THE BAHAMAS

      @The Bahamas:Geography

      Location: Caribbean, chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida

      Geographic coordinates: 24 15 N, 76 00 W

      Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

      Area: total: 13,940 sq km land: 10,070 sq km water : 3,870 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Connecticut

      Land boundaries: 0 km

      Coastline: 3,542 km

      Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation (measured from the archipelagic straight baselines) exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm

      Climate: tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream

      Terrain: long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills

      Elevation extremes: lowest point : Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Alvernia 63 m

      Natural resources: salt, aragonite, timber

      Land use: arable land : 1% permanent crops: 0% permanent pastures: 0% forests and woodland: 32% other : 67% (1993 est.)

      Irrigated land: NA sq km

      Natural hazards: hurricanes and other tropical storms that cause extensive flood and wind damage

      Environment - current issues: coral reef decay

      Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

      Geography - note: strategic location adjacent to US and Cuba; extensive island chain

      @The Bahamas:People

      Population: 275,941 (July 1997 est.)

      Age structure: 0–14 years: 28% (male 39,280; female 38,755) 15–64 years: