u m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
2.96 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Current account balance:
-$1.663 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$6.94 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, fruits and vegetables,
cardamom
Exports - partners:
US 42.2%, El Salvador 9.6%, Honduras 8.6%, Mexico 6.5%, Costa Rica
4.5% (2007)
Imports:
$12.62 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials,
grain, fertilizers, electricity
Imports - partners:
US 34.9%, Mexico 9.9%, China 6.8%, El Salvador 4.6%, Costa Rica 4.1%
(2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$253.6 million (2005 est.)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$4.139 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$5.908 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Currency (code):
quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed
Currency code:
GTQ; USD
Exchange rates:
quetzales (GTQ) per US dollar - 7.6833 (2007), 7.6026 (2006), 7.6339
(2005), 7.9465 (2004), 7.9409 (2003)
Communications
Guatemala
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.355 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
10.15 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of
Guatemala
domestic: state-owned telecommunications company privatized in the
late 1990s opening the way for competition; fixed-line teledensity
11 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity 80 per 100 persons
international: country code - 502; landing point for both the
Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the SAM-1 fiber
optic submarine cable system that together provide connectivity to
South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US;
connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth
station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)
Radios:
835,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
1.323 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.gt
Internet hosts:
124,095 (2008)
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