iculture - products:
milk, potatoes, vegetables; sheep; salmon, other fish

Industries:
fishing, fish processing, shipbuilding, construction, handicrafts

Industrial production growth rate:
8% (1999 est.)

Electricity - production:
160.4 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
149.1 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
4,500 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Exports:
$408 million f.o.b. (2002)

Exports - commodities:
fish and fish products 94%, stamps, ships (1999)

Exports - partners:
Denmark 36.7%, UK 32.1%, Netherlands 6.1%, Nigeria 5.6%, Norway
5.4% (2003)

Imports:
$466 million c.i.f. (2002)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 29%, consumer goods 36%, raw
materials and semi-manufactures 32%, fuels, fish and salt (1999)

Imports - partners:
Denmark 52.7%, Norway 22.5%, Iceland 4.7%, Germany 4.2%, UK 4%
(2003)

Debt - external:
$64 million (1999)

Economic aid - recipient:
$135 million (annual subsidy from Denmark) (1998)

Currency:
Danish krone (DKK)

Currency code:
DKK

Exchange rates:
Danish kroner per US dollar - 6.5877 (2003), 7.89 (2002), 8.323
(2001), 8.083 (2000), 6.976 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Faroe Islands

Telephones - main lines in use:
23,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
30,700 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: good international communications; good
domestic facilities
domestic: digitalization was completed in 1998; both NMT (analog)
and GSM (digital) mobile telephone systems are installed
international: country code - 298; satellite earth stations - 1
Orion; 1 fiber-optic submarine cable to the Shetland Islands,
linking the Faroe Islands with Denmark and Iceland; fiber-optic
submarine cable connection to Canada-Europe cable

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:
26,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (plus 43 low-power repeaters) (September 1995)

Televisions:
15,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.fo

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)

Internet users:
25,000 (2002)

Transportation Faroe Islands

Highways:
total: 463 km
paved: 454 km
unpaved: 9 km (1999