The 1991 CIA World Factbook

Excerpt: ...US, UK, Zimbabwe _#_External debt: $1.4 billion (December 1990 est.) _#_Industrial production: growth rate 4.9% (1989 est.); accounts for about 18% of GDP (1988) _#_Electricity: 181,000 kW capacity; 535 million kWh produced, 60 kWh per capita (1989) _#_Industries: agricultural processing (tea, tobacco, sugar), sawmilling, cement, consumer goods _#_Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; cash crops-tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, and corn; subsistence crops-potatoes, cassava, sorghum, pulses; livestock-cattle and goats _#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $215 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $2.0 billion _#_Currency: Malawian kwacha (plural-kwacha); 1 Malawian kwacha (MK) = 100 tambala _#_Exchange rates: Malawian kwacha (MK) per US$1-2.6300 (January 1991), 2.7289 (1990), 2.7595 (1989), 2.5613 (1988), 2.2087 (1987), 1.8611 (1986), 1.7191 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March _Communications #_Railroads: 789 km 1.067-meter gauge _#_Highways: 13,135 km total; 2,364 km paved; 251 km crushed stone, gravel, or stabilized soil; 10,520 km earth and improved earth _#_Inland waterways: Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi); Shire River, 144 km _#_Ports: Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, and Nkotakota-all on Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) _#_Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft _#_Airports: 48 total, 46 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 9 with runways 1,220-2,439 m _#_Telecommunications: fair system of open-wire lines, radio relay links, and radio communication stations; 36,800 telephones; stations-8 AM, 4 FM, no TV; satellite earth stations-1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT _#_Note: a majority of exports would normally go through Mozambique on the Beira or Nacala railroads, but now most go through South Africa because of insurgent activity and damage to rail lines _Defense Forces #_Branches: Army...