7 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

84.95 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

-$3.447 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$8.879 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts,
gum arabic, sugar

Exports - partners:

China 82.1%, Japan 8.4%, UAE 2.5% (2007)

Imports:

$7.722 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment,
medicines and chemicals, textiles, wheat

Imports - partners:

China 27.9%, Saudi Arabia 7.5%, India 6.3%, Egypt 5.6%, UAE 5.5%,
Japan 4.2% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$1.829 billion (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$1.378 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$29.42 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$NA

Currency (code):

Sudanese pounds (SDG)

Currency code:

SDD

Exchange rates:

Sudanese pounds (SDG) per US dollar - 2.06 (2007), 2.172 (2006),
2.4361 (2005), 2.5791 (2004), 2.6098 (2003)
note: in October 2007 Sudan redenominated its currency by
transforming 100 units of Sudanese dinar into one unit of Sudanese
pound

Communications
Sudan

Telephones - main lines in use:

345,200 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

7.464 million (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: well-equipped system by regional standards and
being upgraded; cellular communications started in 1996 and have
expanded substantially
domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, radiotelephone
communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite
system with 14 earth stations
international: country code - 249; linked to international submarine
cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); satellite earth
stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Arabsat (2000)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 12, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:

7.55 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

3 (1997)

Televisions:

2.38 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.sd

Internet hosts:

33 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (2002)

Internet users:

1.5 million (2007)

Transportation
Sudan

Airports:

101 (2007)

Airports -