est.)

Debt - external:

$6.044 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$NA

Currency (code):

Yemeni rial (YER)

Currency code:

YER

Exchange rates:

Yemeni rials (YER) per US dollar - 199.14 (2007), 197.18 (2006),
192.67 (2005), 184.78 (2004), 183.45 (2003)

Communications
Yemen

Telephones - main lines in use:

968,300 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

2.978 million (2006)

Telephone system:

general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been
made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay,
cable, tropospheric scatter, and GSM mobile-cellular telephone
systems; fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains low by
regional standards
international: country code - 967; landing point for the
international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
(FLAG); satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1
Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2
Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:

1.05 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

3 (including one Egypt-based station that broadcasts in Yemen); plus
several repeaters (2007)

Televisions:

470,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ye

Internet hosts:

167 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

320,000 (2007)

Transportation
Yemen

Airports:

50 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 17
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 33
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 4 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 71 km; liquid petroleum gas 22 km; oil 1,309 km (2007)

Roadways:

total: 71,300 km
paved: 6,200 km
unpaved: 65,100 km (2005)

Merchant marine:

total: 4
by type: cargo 1, chemical tanker 1, petroleum tanker 1, roll
on/roll off 1
registered in other countries: 13 (North Korea 2, Moldova 1, Panama
6, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1, Sierra Leone 2, unknown 1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Aden, Hudaydah, Mukalla

Transportation - note:

the International Maritime Bureau reports offshore waters in the
Gulf of