;
fish

Industries:

food and beverages, fish processing, shoes and garments, salt
mining, ship repair

Industrial production growth rate:

7.5% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

47 million kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

43.71 million kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

2,117 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

0 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

1,785 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

Current account balance:

-$132.6 million (2007 est.)

Exports:

$76.5 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

fuel, shoes, garments, fish, hides

Exports - partners:

Spain 37.2%, Portugal 29.9%, Morocco 7%, US 6.6% (2007)

Imports:

$743.6 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

foodstuffs, industrial products, transport equipment, fuels

Imports - partners:

Portugal 40.7%, Netherlands 10.9%, France 6.5%, Spain 5.6%, Cote
d'Ivoire 4.9%, Brazil 4.7%, Italy 4.7% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$160.6 million (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$398 million (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$325 million (2002)

Currency (code):

Cape Verdean escudo (CVE)

Currency code:

CVE

Exchange rates:

Cape Verdean escudos (CVE) per US dollar - 81.235 (2007), 87.946
(2006), 88.67 (2005), 88.808 (2004), 97.703 (2003)

Communications
Cape Verde

Telephones - main lines in use:

71,600 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

148,000 (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: effective system, extensive modernization from
1996-2000 following partial privatization in 1995
domestic: major service provider is Cabo Verde Telecom (CVT);
fiber-optic ring, completed in 2001, links all islands providing
Internet access and ISDN services; cellular service introduced in
1998; broadband services launched in 2004
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