ricity

Exports - partners:
US 56.7%, El Salvador 10.8%, Nicaragua 3.6% (2003)

Imports:
$5.749 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials,
grain, fertilizers, electricity

Imports - partners:
US 34.1%, Mexico 8.8%, South Korea 7.8%, El Salvador 6.4%, China
4.6% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$2.843 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$4.957 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$250 million (2000 est.)

Currency:
quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed

Currency code:
GTQ; USD

Exchange rates:
quetzales per US dollar - 7.9409 (2003), 7.8216 (2002), 7.8586
(2001), 7.7632 (2000), 7.3856 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Guatemala

Telephones - main lines in use:
846,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1,577,100 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of
Guatemala
domestic: NA
international: country code - 502; connected to Central American
Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)

Radios:
835,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:
1.323 million (1997)

Internet country code:
.gt

Internet hosts:
20,360 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2000)

Internet users:
400,000 (2002)

Transportation Guatemala

Railways:
total: 886 km
narrow gauge: 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 14,118 km
paved: 4,871 km (including 74 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,247 km (1999)

Waterways:
990 km
note: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable
during high-water season (2004)

Pipelines:
oil 480 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Champerico, Puerto Barrios, Puerto Quetzal, San Jose, Santo Tomas
de Castilla

Merchant marine:
none

Airports:
452 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 441
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 109
under 914 m: 323 (2004 est.)

Military Guatemala

Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force

Military manpow