st.)

Oil - consumption:
3,100 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Exports:
$1.079 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

Exports - commodities:
rubber, timber, iron, diamonds, cocoa, coffee

Exports - partners:
Germany 43.3%, Poland 10.9%, Greece 9.1%, US 6%, France 5.5%,
Thailand 4.9%, China 4.1% (2003)

Imports:
$5.051 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

Imports - commodities:
fuels, chemicals, machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured
goods; foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
South Korea 39.2%, Japan 16.2%, Singapore 12.4%, Germany 9.9%,
Spain 4.1% (2003)

Debt - external:
$2.1 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$94 million (1999)

Currency:
Liberian dollar (LRD)

Currency code:
LRD

Exchange rates:
Liberian dollars per US dollar - NA (2003), 61.7542 (2002), 48.5833
(2001), 40.9525 (2000), 41.9025 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Liberia

Telephones - main lines in use:
7,000 (2001)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2,000 (2001)

Telephone system:
general assessment: telephone and telegraph service via microwave
radio relay network; main center is Monrovia
domestic: NA
international: country code - 231; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 7, shortwave 2 (2001)

Radios:
790,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus four low-power repeaters) (2001)

Televisions:
70,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.lr

Internet hosts:
14 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2001)

Internet users:
1,000 (2002)

Transportation Liberia

Railways:
total: 490 km
standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 145 km 1.067-m gauge
note: none of the railways are in operation (2003)

Highways:
total: 10,600 km
paved: 657 km
unpaved: 9,943 km (1999 est.)

Ports and harbors:
Buchanan, Greenville, Harper, Monrovia, Robertsport

Merchant marine:
total: 1,449 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 50,555,752 GRT/79,125,329 DWT
registered in other countries: 35 (2004 est.)
foreign-owned: Argentina 9, Australia 3, Austria 16, Belgium 8,
Bermuda 1, Brazil 5, Chile 7, China 40, Croatia 11, Cyprus 4,
Denmark 4, Estonia 1, France 3, Germany 510, Greece 142, Hong Kong
56, Iceland 1, India 3, Indonesia 1, Israel 4, Italy 8, Japan 81,
South Korea 7, Latvia 22, Isle of Man 5, Mexico 1, Monaco 59,
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