Electricity - consumption:
34.3 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
800 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
3.2 billion kWh (2003)

Oil - production:
36,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
285,000 bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - exports:
14,500 bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - imports:
360,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Natural gas - production:
250 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
18.8 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
18.5 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-1.119 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$11.47 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, mineral products, chemicals, metals;
textiles, foodstuffs

Exports - partners:
Russia 47%, UK 8.3%, Netherlands 6.7%, Poland 5.3% (2004)

Imports:
$13.57 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
mineral products, machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs,
metals

Imports - partners:
Russia 68.2%, Germany 6.6%, Ukraine 3.3% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$770.2 million (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$600 million (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$194.3 million (1995)

Currency (code):
Belarusian ruble (BYB/BYR)

Currency code:
BYB/BYR

Exchange rates:
Belarusian rubles per US dollar - 2,160.26 (2004), 2,051.27 (2003),
1,790.92 (2002), 1,390 (2001), 876.75 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Belarus

Telephones - main lines in use:
3,071,300 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.118 million (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: the Ministry of Telecommunications controls all
telecommunications through its carrier (a joint stock company)
Beltelcom which is a monopoly
domestic: local - Minsk has a digital metropolitan network and a
cellular NMT-450 network; waiting lists for telephones are long;
local service outside Minsk is neglected and poor; intercity -
Belarus has a partly developed fiber-optic backbone system presently
serving at least 13 major cities (1998); Belarus' fiber optics form
synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries'
systems; an inadequate analog system remains operational
international: country code - 375; Belarus is a member of the
Trans-European Line (TEL), Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line,
and has acc