Imports:

$4.516 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:

UAE 14.3%, Russia 11.6%, Turkey 10.3%, China 9.1%, Ukraine 8.7%,
Iran 7%, Germany 6.5%, US 5.6% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$28.25 million from the US (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$5.172 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$1.4 billion to $5 billion (2004 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$NA

Currency (code):

Turkmen manat (TMM)

Currency code:

TMM

Exchange rates:

Turkmen manat (TMM) per US dollar - 6,250 (2007) official rate
note: the commercial rate was 19,800 Turkemen manat per US$ (2007)

Communications
Turkmenistan

Telephones - main lines in use:

398,100 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

216,900 (2006)

Telephone system:

general assessment: poorly developed
domestic: Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign investors, is
planning to upgrade the country's telephone exchanges and install a
new digital switching system; mobile-cellular usage remains limited
international: country code - 993; linked by cable and microwave
radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased
connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; a new
telephone link from Ashgabat to Iran has been established; a new
exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey
via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat
(2006)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:

1.225 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

4 (government-owned and programmed) (2004)

Televisions:

820,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.tm

Internet hosts:

640 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1

Internet users:

70,000 (2007)

Transportation
Turkmenistan

Airports:

28 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 22
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 11
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 6
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
under 914 m: 4 (2007)

Heliports:

1 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 6,441 km; oil 1,361 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 2,440 km
broad gauge: 2,440 km 1.520-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:

total: 58,592 km
paved: 47,577 km
unpaved: 11,015 km (2002)

Waterways: