lothing

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity - production:
85.33 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
79.36 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
1,900 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-42 million (2003)

Exports:
$156 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
peanut products, fish, cotton lint, palm kernels, re-exports

Exports - partners:
UK 26.7%, Belgium 6.7%, China 6.7%, Germany 6.7%, Italy 6.7%,
Malaysia 6.7%, Thailand 6.7% (2003)

Imports:
$271 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, manufactures, fuel, machinery and transport equipment

Imports - partners:
China 24.9%, Senegal 8.9%, Brazil 6.8%, UK 6.6%, US 5.6%,
Netherlands 5%, India 4.9% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$118 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$476 million (2001 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$45.4 million (1995)

Currency:
dalasi (GMD)

Currency code:
GMD

Exchange rates:
dalasi per US dollar - NA (2003), 19.9182 (2002), 15.6872 (2001),
12.7876 (2000), 11.3951 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Gambia, The

Telephones - main lines in use:
38,400 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
100,000 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: adequate; a packet switched data network is
available
domestic: adequate network of microwave radio relay and open-wire
international: country code - 220; microwave radio relay links to
Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat
(Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2001)

Radios:
196,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (government-owned) (1997)

Televisions:
5,000 (2000)

Internet country code:
.gm

Internet hosts:
568 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2001)

Internet users:
25,000 (2002)

Transportation Gambia, The

Highways:
total: 2,700 km
paved: 956 km
unpaved: 1,744 km (1999)

Waterways:
390 km (on River Gambia; small ocean-going vessels can reach 190
km) (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Banjul

Merchant marine:
none (2004 est.)

Airports:
1 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runwa