0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
75,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-278 million (2003)

Exports:
$5.269 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
textiles and apparel, tea, diamonds, coconut products, petroleum
products

Exports - partners:
US 34.6%, UK 12.5%, India 4.8%, Germany 4.5% (2003)

Imports:
$6.626 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
textiles, mineral products, petroleum, foodstuffs, machinery and
equipment

Imports - partners:
India 16.1%, Hong Kong 8.4%, Singapore 7.8%, Japan 6.7%, China
4.9%, South Korea 4.2%, Taiwan 4.2%, UK 4.1%, Malaysia 4% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$2.273 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$10.52 billion (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$577 million (1998)

Currency:
Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)

Currency code:
LKR

Exchange rates:
Sri Lankan rupees per US dollar - 96.521 (2003), 95.6621 (2002),
89.383 (2001), 77.0051 (2000), 70.6354 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Sri Lanka

Telephones - main lines in use:
881,400 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
931,600 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: very inadequate domestic service, particularly
in rural areas; likely improvement with privatization of national
telephone company and encouragement to private investment; good
international service (1999)
domestic: national trunk network consists mostly of digital
microwave radio relay; fiber-optic links now in use in Colombo area
and two fixed wireless local loops have been installed; competition
is strong in mobile cellular systems; telephone density remains low
at 2.6 main lines per 100 persons (1999)
international: country code - 94; submarine cables to Indonesia and
Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (1999)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 26, FM 45, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:
3.85 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
21 (1997)

Televisions:
1.53 million (1997)

Internet country code:
.lk

Internet hosts:
1,882 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2000)

Internet users:
200,000 (2002)

Transportation Sri Lanka

Railways:
total: 1,449 km
broad gauge: 1,449 km 1.676-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 96,695 km
paved: 91,860 km
unpaved: 4