tion growth rate:
8.4% (1999 est.)

Electricity - production:
2.906 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
2.752 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
50 million kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
17,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
11.33 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$-617 million (2003)

Exports:
$978 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
gold, coffee, cashew nuts, manufactures, cotton

Exports - partners:
Japan 9.5%, India 8.6%, Netherlands 8.2%, Germany 5.3%, UK 5.3%,
Kenya 4.8% (2003)

Imports:
$1.674 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
consumer goods, machinery and transportation equipment, industrial
raw materials, crude oil

Imports - partners:
South Africa 10.1%, China 9.3%, Zambia 6.4%, India 5.8%, UAE 5.4%,
Kenya 5.1%, UK 4.5%, Germany 4% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$2.064 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$6.549 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$1.2 billion (2001)

Currency:
Tanzanian shilling (TZS)

Currency code:
TZS

Exchange rates:
Tanzanian shillings per US dollar - NA (2003), 966.583 (2002),
876.412 (2001), 800.409 (2000), 744.759 (1999)

Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June

Communications Tanzania

Telephones - main lines in use:
149,100 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
891,200 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system operating below capacity and being
modernized for better service; VSAT (very small aperture terminal)
system under construction
domestic: trunk service provided by open-wire, microwave radio
relay, tropospheric scatter, and fiber-optic cable; some links being
made digital
international: country code - 255; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:
8.8 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (1999)

Televisions:
103,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.tz

Internet hosts:
5,534 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
6 (2000)

Internet users:
250,000 (2003)

Transportation Tanzania

Railways: