Current account balance:

$34.53 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$178.9 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

crude oil 45%, natural gas, reexports, dried fish, dates

Exports - partners:

Japan 23.6%, South Korea 9.2%, Thailand 5%, India 4.8% (2007)

Imports:

$116.6 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food

Imports - partners:

China 12.8%, India 10%, US 8.7%, Japan 6.1%, Germany 5.9%, UK 5.3%,
Italy 4.6% (2007)

Economic aid - donor:

since its founding in 1971, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development has
given about $5.2 billion in aid to 56 countries (2004)

Economic aid - recipient:

$5.36 million (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$77.24 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$61.68 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$44.37 billion (2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$14.14 billion (2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$138.5 billion (2006)

Currency (code):

Emirati dirham (AED)

Currency code:

AED

Exchange rates:

Emirati dirhams (AED) per US dollar - 3.673 (2007), 3.673 (2006),
3.6725 (2005), 3.6725 (2004), 3.6725 (2003)
note: officially pegged to the US dollar since February 2002

Communications
United Arab Emirates

Telephones - main lines in use:

1.385 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

7.595 million (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital
network with rapidly growing use of mobile-cellular telephones; key
centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubai
domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber optic and coaxial cable
international: country code - 971; linked to the international
submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); landing
point for both the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable
networks; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean
and 2 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain;
microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 13, FM 8, shortwave 2 (2004)

Radios:

820,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

15 (2004)

Televisions:

310,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ae

Internet hosts:

381,915 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

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