rubber, timber, iron, diamonds, cocoa, coffee

Exports - partners:
Denmark 29.5%, Germany 18.9%, Poland 14.3%, US 8.9%, Greece 8%
(2004)

Imports:
$5.051 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

Imports - commodities:
fuels, chemicals, machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured
goods; foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
South Korea 38.8%, Japan 21.2%, Singapore 12.2%, Croatia 5.3%,
Germany 4.2% (2004)

Debt - external:
$2.1 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$94 million (1999)

Currency (code):
Liberian dollar (LRD)

Currency code:
LRD

Exchange rates:
Liberian dollars per US dollar - 54.906 (2004), 59.379 (2003),
61.754 (2002), 48.583 (2001), 40.953 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Liberia

Telephones - main lines in use:
7,000 (2001)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2,000 (2001)

Telephone system:
general assessment: the limited services available are found almost
exclusively in the capital Monrovia
domestic: fully automatic system with very low density of .21 fixed
mainlines per 100 persons; limited wireless service available
international: country code - 231; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 7, shortwave 2 (2001)

Radios:
790,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus four low-power repeaters) (2001)

Televisions:
70,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.lr

Internet hosts:
14 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2001)

Internet users:
1,000 (2002)

Transportation Liberia

Railways:
total: 490 km
standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 145 km 1.067-m gauge
note: none of the railways are in operation because of the civil war
(2004)

Highways:
total: 10,600 km
paved: 657 km
unpaved: 9,943 km (1999 est.)

Ports and harbors:
Buchanan, Monrovia

Merchant marine:
total: 1,465 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 50,555,752 GRT/79,125,329 DWT
by type: barge carrier 3, bulk carrier 275, cargo 91, chemical
tanker 173, combination ore/oil 22, container 388, liquefied gas 78,
passenger 2, passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 324, refrigerated
cargo 57, roll on/roll off 6, specialized tanker 9, vehicle carrier
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foreign-owned: 1,392 (Argentina 8, Australia 2, Austria 13, Bahamas
3, Brazil 6, British 1, Canada 2, Chile 1, China 36, Croatia 7,
Cyprus 1, Denmark 5, France 3, Ge