- imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
200,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
1,500 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$330.2 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$365 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
cotton, cattle, gum arabic

Exports - partners:
US 67.8%, China 21.5%, Portugal 4.3% (2004)

Imports:
$500.7 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum
products, foodstuffs, textiles

Imports - partners:
France 21.9%, Cameroon 16.1%, US 10.8%, Portugal 10.4%, Germany
6.4%, Belgium 4.6% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$652.7 million (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$1.1 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$238.3 million received; note - $125 million committed by Taiwan
(August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank;
ODA $150 million (2001 est.)

Currency (code):
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible
authority is the Bank of the Central African States

Currency code:
XAF

Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 528.29
(2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002), 733.04 (2001), 711.98 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Chad

Telephones - main lines in use:
11,800 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
65,000 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: primitive system
domestic: fair system of radiotelephone communication stations
international: country code - 235; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 5 (2002)

Radios:
1.67 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2002)

Televisions:
10,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.td

Internet hosts:
8 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)

Internet users:
15,000 (2002)

Transportation Chad

Highways:
total: 33,400 km
paved: 267 km
unpaved: 33,133 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
Chari and Legone rivers are navigable only in wet season (2002)

Pipelines:
oil 205 km (2004)

Airports:
50 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 7
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
tot