fossil fuel: 7.6%
hydro: 92.4%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
10.21 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
1.062 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
375 million kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
2,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
20,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Natural gas - production:
16 million cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
2.016 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
2 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Current account balance:
$-87.92 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$646.7 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
cotton, wool, meat, tobacco; gold, mercury, uranium, natural gas,
hydropower; machinery; shoes

Exports - partners:
UAE 28.2%, Russia 19.1%, China 12%, Kazakhstan 11.1%, Switzerland
6.3% (2004)

Imports:
$775.1 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
oil and gas, machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
China 26.3%, Russia 22.3%, Kazakhstan 17.1%, Turkey 5.4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$498.7 million (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$1.97 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$50 million from the US (2001)

Currency (code):

Currency code:
KGS

Exchange rates:
soms per US dollar - 42.65 (2004), 43.648 (2003), 46.937 (2002),
48.378 (2001), 47.704 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Kyrgyzstan

Telephones - main lines in use:
394,800 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
53,100 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: poorly developed; about 100,000 unsatisfied
applications for household telephones
domestic: principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider,
probably limited to Bishkek region
international: country code - 996; connections with other CIS
countries by landline or microwave radio relay and with other
countries by leased connections with Moscow international gateway
switch and by satellite; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik
and 1 Intelsat; connected internationally by the Trans-Asia-Europe
(TAE) fiber-optic line

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12 (plus 10 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:
520,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
NA (repeater stations throughout the