grain

Exports - partners:
India 47.4%, US 22.7%, Germany 8.4% (2004)

Imports:
$1.419 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

Imports - commodities:
gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer

Imports - partners:
India 46.3%, China 10.8%, UAE 9.3%, Saudi Arabia 4.1% (2004)

Debt - external:
$2.7 billion (2001)

Economic aid - recipient:
$424 million (FY00/01)

Currency (code):
Nepalese rupee (NPR)

Currency code:
NPR

Exchange rates:
Nepalese rupees per US dollar - 73.674 (2004), 76.141 (2003),
77.877 (2002), 74.949 (2001), 71.094 (2000)

Fiscal year:
16 July - 15 July

Communications Nepal

Telephones - main lines in use:
371,800 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
50,400 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair
radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone
network
domestic: NA
international: country code - 977; radiotelephone communications;
microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat
(Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (January 2000)

Radios:
840,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998)

Televisions:
130,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.np

Internet hosts:
917 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
6 (2000)

Internet users:
80,000 (2002)

Transportation Nepal

Railways:
total: 59 km
narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2004)

Highways:
total: 13,223 km
paved: 4,073 km
unpaved: 9,150 km (1999 est.)

Airports:
46 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 9
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 7 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 37
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 29 (2004 est.)

Military Nepal

Military branches:
Royal Nepalese Army (includes Royal Nepalese Army Air Service),
Nepalese Police Force

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 6,107,091 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 4.193 million (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 308,031 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$99.2 million (2004)

Military expenditures - percen