u m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Current account balance:
-$1.147 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$4.127 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement
Exports - partners:
Uganda 16.9%, UK 9.3%, Tanzania 8.2%, Netherlands 8.2%, US 6.4%,
Pakistan 5.2% (2007)
Imports:
$8.54 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor
vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics
Imports - partners:
UAE 11.4%, China 9.9%, India 8.7%, Saudi Arabia 8%, South Africa
6.9%, US 6.2%, Japan 5.9%, UK 4.6% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$768.3 million (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$3.355 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$6.713 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$1.249 billion (2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$47 million (2007 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$11.38 billion (2006)
Currency (code):
Kenyan shilling (KES)
Currency code:
KES
Exchange rates:
Kenyan shillings (KES) per US dollar - 68.309 (2007), 72.101 (2006),
75.554 (2005), 79.174 (2004), 75.936 (2003)
Communications
Kenya
Telephones - main lines in use:
264,800 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
11.44 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate; fixed-line telephone system is small
and inefficient; trunks are primarily microwave radio relay;
business data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal
(VSAT) system
domestic: no recent growth in fixed-line infrastructure and the sole
provider, Telkom Kenya, is slated for privatization; multiple
providers in the mobile-cellular segment of the market fostering a
boom in mobile-cellular telephone usage
international: country code - 254; satellite earth stations - 4
Intelsat
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 24, FM 18, shortwave 6 (2001)
Radios:
3.07 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
8 (2001)
Televisions:
730,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.ke
Internet hosts:
27,376 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
65 (2001)
Internet users:
3 million (2007)
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