Belgium 26%, South Africa 14.4%, Italy 9.6%, Spain 9.5%, Germany
8.3%, Zimbabwe 4.7% (2003)

Imports:
$1.142 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel, chemicals, metal products,
foodstuffs, textiles

Imports - partners:
South Africa 26.3%, Australia 9.2%, US 3.9% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$990 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$966 million (2002 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$632.8 million (2001)

Currency:
metical (MZM)

Currency code:
MZM

Exchange rates:
meticais per US dollar - 23,782.3 (2003), 23,678 (2002), 20,703.6
(2001), 15,447.1 (2000), 13,028.6 (1999)
note: effective October 2000, the exchange rate is determined as the
weighted average of buying and selling exchange rates of all
transactions of commercial banks and stock exchanges with the public

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Mozambique

Telephones - main lines in use:
83,700 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
428,900 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system but not available generally
(telephone density is only 16 telephones for each 1,000 persons)
domestic: the system consists of open-wire lines and trunk
connection by microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
international: country code - 258; satellite earth stations - 5
Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 13, FM 17, shortwave 11 (2001)

Radios:
730,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)

Televisions:
67,600 (2000)

Internet country code:
.mz

Internet hosts:
3,249 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
11 (2002)

Internet users:
50,000 (2002)

Transportation Mozambique

Railways:
total: 3,123 km
narrow gauge: 2,983 km 1.067-m gauge; 140 km 0.762-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 30,400 km
paved: 5,685 km
unpaved: 24,715 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
460 km (Zambezi River navigable to Tete and along Cahora Bassa
Lake) (2004)

Pipelines:
gas 649 km; refined products 292 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Beira, Inhambane, Maputo, Nacala, Pemba, Quelimane

Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 4,125 GRT/7,024 DWT
by type: cargo 3
foreign-owned: Belgium 2 (2004 est.)

Airports:
158 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 22
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: