2006 est.)
Natural gas - production:
146 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
146 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
6.513 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)
Current account balance:
-$1.856 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$2.227 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
gold, coffee, cashew nuts, manufactures, cotton
Exports - partners:
China 10.3%, India 9.7%, Netherlands 6.5%, Germany 6.3%, UAE 4.9%
(2007)
Imports:
$4.861 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
consumer goods, machinery and transportation equipment, industrial
raw materials, crude oil
Imports - partners:
China 12%, Kenya 8%, South Africa 7.7%, India 6.9%, UAE 5.9% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$1.505 billion (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.91 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$4.382 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$NA
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$NA
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$587.9 million (2005)
Currency (code):
Tanzanian shilling (TZS)
Currency code:
TZS
Exchange rates:
Tanzanian shillings (TZS) per US dollar - 1,255 (2007), 1,251.9
(2006), 1,128.93 (2005), 1,089.33 (2004), 1,038.42 (2003)
Communications
Tanzania
Telephones - main lines in use:
165,013 (2008)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
9.358 million (2008)
Telephone system:
general assessment: telecommunications services are inadequate;
system operating below capacity and being modernized for better
service; small aperture terminal (VSAT) system under construction
domestic: fixed-line telephone network inadequate with less than 1
connection per 100 persons; mobile-cellular service, aided by
multiple providers, is increasing; trunk service provided by
open-wire, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and
fiber-optic cable; some links being made digital
international: country code - 255; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios:
8.8 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
3 (1999)
Televisions:
103,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.tz
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