, Netherlands 10.9%, UK 6.3%, Mexico 5% (2007)

Imports:

$12.26 billion (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

raw materials, consumer goods, capital equipment, petroleum,
construction materials

Imports - partners:

US 41%, Mexico 6.1%, Venezuela 5.7%, Japan 5.4%, China 5.1%, Brazil
4.3% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$29.51 million (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$4.114 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$7.416 billion (30 June 2007)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$8.53 billion (2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$490 million (2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$1.478 billion (2005)

Currency (code):

Costa Rican colon (CRC)

Currency code:

CRC

Exchange rates:

Costa Rican colones (CRC) per US dollar - 519.53 (2007), 511.3
(2006), 477.79 (2005), 437.91 (2004), 398.66 (2003)

Communications
Costa Rica

Telephones - main lines in use:

1.437 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

1.503 million (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: good domestic telephone service in terms of
breadth of coverage; restricted cellular telephone service;
state-run monopoly provider is struggling with the demand for new
lines, resulting in long waiting times
domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave,
fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is
available
international: country code - 506; landing point for the Americas
Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber-optic
telecommunications submarine cable and the MAYA-1 submarine cable
that provide links to South and Central America, parts of the
Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave
System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 65, FM 51, shortwave 19 (2002)

Radios:

980,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

20 (plus 43 repeaters) (2002)

Televisions:

525,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.cr

Internet hosts:

16,440 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

3 (of which only one is legal) (2000)

Internet users:

1.5 million (2007)

Transportation
Costa Rica

Airports:

151 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 36
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 21
under 914 m: 11 (2007)