stries:
food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment,
petroleum products, textiles, chemicals, beverages

Industrial production growth rate:
22% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
8.536 billion kWh (2003)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.7%
hydro: 99.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.3% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
5.878 billion kWh (2003)

Electricity - exports:
954 million kWh (2003)

Electricity - imports:
434.2 million kWh (2003)

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

Oil - consumption:
41,500 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
64.5 million cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
65 million cu m (2003 est.)

Current account balance:
$181.8 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$2.2 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
meat, rice, leather products, wool, fish, dairy products

Exports - partners:
US 17.3%, Brazil 16%, Germany 6.3%, Argentina 6.2%, Mexico 4.2%
(2004)

Imports:
$2.071 billion f.o.b. (2003)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, chemicals, road vehicles, crude petroleum

Imports - partners:
Argentina 19.5%, Brazil 19%, Paraguay 12.9%, US 9.2%, China 6%
(2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.362 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$12.8 billion (March 2004)

Economic aid - recipient:
NA

Currency (code):
Uruguayan peso (UYU)

Currency code:
UYU

Exchange rates:
Uruguayan pesos per US dollar - 28.704 (2004), 28.209 (2003),
21.257 (2002), 13.319 (2001), 12.1 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Uruguay

Telephones - main lines in use:
946,500 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
652,000 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fully digitalized
domestic: most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; new
nationwide microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 598; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2002)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 91, FM 149, shortwave 7 (2001)

Radios:
1.97 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
23 (2002)

Televisions:
782,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.uy

Internet hosts:
87,630 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
14 (2001)