ghest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2% (2001 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $42 million
expenditures: $40 million, including capital expenditures of NA
(1999)
Agriculture - products:
coconuts, tomatoes, melons, taro, breadfruit, fruits; pigs, chickens
Industries:
copra, tuna processing, tourism, craft items from shell, wood, and
pearls
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 99%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 1% (solar)
Exports:
$9 million f.o.b. (2000)
Exports - commodities:
copra cake, coconut oil, handicrafts, fish
Exports - partners:
US, Japan, Australia, China (2000)
Imports:
$54 million f.o.b. (2000)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels, beverages and tobacco
Imports - partners:
US, Japan, Australia, NZ, Singapore, Fiji, China, Philippines (2000)
Debt - external:
$86.5 million (FY99/00 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
more than $1 billion from the US, 1986-2002
Currency (code):
US dollar (USD)
Currency code:
USD
Exchange rates:
the US dollar is the legal tender
Fiscal year:
1 October - 30 September
Communications Marshall Islands
Telephones - main lines in use:
4,500 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
600 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: digital switching equipment; modern services
include telex, cellular, internet, international calling, caller ID,
and leased data circuits
domestic: Majuro Atoll and Ebeye and Kwajalein islands have regular,
seven-digit, direct-dial telephones; other islands interconnected by
shortwave radiotelephone (used mostly for government purposes)
international: country code - 692; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); US Government satellite communications
system on Kwajalein (2001)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 1, shortwave 0
note: additionally, the US Armed Forces Radio and Television
Services (Central Pacific Network) operate one FM and one AM station
on Kwajalein (2002)
Radios:
NA
Television broadcast stations:
2 (both are US military stations) (2002)
Televisions:
NA
Internet country code:
.mh
Internet hosts:
6 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)
Internet users:
1,400 (2003)
Transportation Marshall Islands
Highways:
total: 64.5 km
paved: 64.5 km
unpaved
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