2002)

Oil - production:
417,500 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
78,000 bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - exports:
370,300 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
4 billion bbl (2004 est.)

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

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

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

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

Natural gas - proved reserves:
480 billion cu m (2004)

Current account balance:
$369.9 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$4.468 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish

Exports - partners:
Thailand 33.8%, China 30.3%, Singapore 7.8% (2004)

Imports:
$3.734 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals

Imports - partners:
UAE 12.2%, Saudi Arabia 9.7%, China 8.8%, France 7.3%, India 4.4%,
US 4.4%, Kuwait 4.2% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$5.3 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$5.4 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$2.3 billion (2003-07 disbursements) (2003-07 disbursements)

Currency (code):
Yemeni rial (YER)

Currency code:
YER

Exchange rates:
Yemeni rials per US dollar - 184.78 (2004), 183.45 (2003), 175.63
(2002), 168.67 (2001), 161.72 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Yemen

Telephones - main lines in use:
542,200 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
411,100 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been
made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay,
cable, tropospheric scatter, and GSM cellular mobile telephone
systems
international: country code - 967; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik
(Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia and Djibouti

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:
1.05 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
7 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:
470,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.ye

Internet hosts:
138 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)

Internet users:
100,000 (2002)

Transportation Yemen

Highways: