ty - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
129,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$867 million (2003)

Exports:
$5.524 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
ferronickel, sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats,
consumer goods

Exports - partners:
US 83.8%, Canada 1.5%, Haiti 1.5% (2003)

Imports:
$7.911 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics, chemicals and
pharmaceuticals

Imports - partners:
US 52.1%, Venezuela 11.9%, Mexico 4.7%, Colombia 4.2% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$261 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$6.567 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$239.6 million (1995)

Currency:
Dominican peso (DOP)

Currency code:
DOP

Exchange rates:
Dominican pesos per US dollar - 30.8307 (2003), 18.6098 (2002),
16.9516 (2001), 16.415 (2000), 16.0331 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Dominican Republic

Telephones - main lines in use:
901,800 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2,120,400 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: relatively efficient system based on island-wide microwave
radio relay network
international: country code - 1-809; 1 coaxial submarine cable;
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 120, FM 56, shortwave 4 (1998)

Radios:
1.44 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
25 (2003)

Televisions:
770,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.do

Internet hosts:
64,197 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
24 (2000)

Internet users:
500,000 (2003)

Transportation Dominican Republic

Railways:
total: 1,743 km
standard gauge: 375 km 1.435-m gauge
note: additional 1,226 km operated by sugar companies in 1.076-m,
0.889-m, and 0.762-m gauges (2003)
narrow gauge: 142 km 0.762-m gauge

Highways:
total: 12,600 km
paved: 6,224 km
unpaved: 6,376 km (1999)

Ports and harbors:
Barahona, La Romana, Manzanillo, Puerto Plata, San Pedro de
Macoris, Santo Domingo

Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 11,230 GRT/17,011 DWT
by type: cargo 1, petroleum tanker 2
registered in other countries: