otatoes, olives,
tobacco; sheep, goats

Industries:
banking, food processing, jewelry, cement, textiles, mineral and
chemical products, wood and furniture products, oil refining, metal
fabricating

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity - production:
8.066 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 97.2%
hydro: 2.8%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
8.591 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
1.09 billion kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
107,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$-2.389 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$1.783 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer
goods, fruit, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power
machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper

Exports - partners:
Syria 24.9%, UAE 10%, Turkey 6.9%, Switzerland 6.7%, Saudi Arabia
5.3% (2004)

Imports:
$8.162 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and
live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco

Imports - partners:
Italy 11.2%, France 10.3%, Syria 9.8%, Germany 8.6%, China 5.8%, US
5.5%, UK 4.6% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$16.3 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$15.84 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$2.2 billion received (2003), out of the $4.2 billion in soft loans
pledged at the November 2002 Paris II Aid Conference

Currency (code):
Lebanese pound (LBP)

Currency code:
LBP

Exchange rates:
Lebanese pounds per US dollar - 1,507.5 (2004), 1,507.5 (2003),
1,507.5 (2002), 1,507.5 (2001), 1,507.5 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Lebanon

Telephones - main lines in use:
678,800 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
775,100 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: telecommunications system severely damaged by
civil war; rebuilding well underway
domestic: primarily microwave radio relay and cable
international: country code - 961; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean) (erratic operations);
coaxial cable to Syria; microwave radio relay to Syria b