products:
wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, cotton; cattle, sheep,
poultry

Industries:
petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, food
processing, fertilizer, metal fabrication/processing

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity - production:
32.6 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 98.4%
hydro: 1.6%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
33.7 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
1.1 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
2.25 million bbl/day (2004 est.); note - prewar production (in
2002) was 2.03 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
383,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
1.49 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
112.5 billion bbl (2004 est.)

Natural gas - production:
2.35 billion cu m (2002 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
2.35 billion cu m (2002 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.149 trillion cu m (2004)

Current account balance:
$-560 million (2003 est.)

Exports:
$10.1 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
crude oil (83.9%), crude materials excluding fuels (8.0%), food and
live animals (5.0%)

Exports - partners:
US 51.9%, Spain 7.3%, Japan 6.6%, Italy 5.7%, Canada 5.2% (2004)

Imports:
$9.9 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
food, medicine, manufactures

Imports - partners:
Syria 22.9%, Turkey 19.5%, US 9.2%, Jordan 6.7%, Germany 4.9% (2004)

Debt - external:
$125 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
more than $33 billion in foreign aid pledged for 2004-07 (2004)

Currency (code):
New Iraqi dinar (NID) as of 22 January 2004

Currency code:
NID, IQD prior to 22 January 2004

Exchange rates:
New Iraqi dinars per US dollar - 1,890 (second half, 2003), 0.3109
(2002), 0.3109 (2001), 0.3109 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Iraq

Telephones - main lines in use:
675,000; note - an unknown number of telephone lines were damaged
or destroyed during the March-April 2003 war (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
20,000 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: the 2003 war severely disrupted
telecommunications throughout Iraq including intern