Current account balance:
$47.5 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$63.72 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
oil and refined products, fertilizers
Exports - partners:
Japan 19.9%, South Korea 17%, Taiwan 11.2%, Singapore 9.9%, US 8.4%,
Netherlands 4.8%, China 4.4% (2007)
Imports:
$20.64 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing
Imports - partners:
US 12.7%, Japan 8.5%, Germany 7.3%, China 6.8%, South Korea 6.6%,
Saudi Arabia 6.2%, Italy 5.8%, UK 4.6% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$2.6 million (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$16.78 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$33.62 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$898 million (2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$24.22 billion (2007 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$128.9 billion (2006)
Currency (code):
Kuwaiti dinar (KD)
Currency code:
KWD
Exchange rates:
Kuwaiti dinars (KD) per US dollar - 0.2844 (2007), 0.29 (2006),
0.292 (2005), 0.2947 (2004), 0.298 (2003)
Communications
Kuwait
Telephones - main lines in use:
517,000 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.774 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: the quality of service is excellent
domestic: new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new
subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay,
coaxial cable, and open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular
telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well
supplied with pay telephones
international: country code - 965; linked to international submarine
cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); linked to Bahrain,
Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and
microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 6
(3 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1 Inmarsat -
Atlantic Ocean, and 2 Arabsat)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
1.175 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997)
Televisions:
875,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.kw
Internet hosts:
3,289 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
3 (2000)
Internet users:
900,000
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