Electricity - consumption:
9.813 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
3.55 billion kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
23,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-346 million (2003)

Exports:
$1.261 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing

Exports - partners:
Zambia 6.3%, South Africa 6.1%, China 5.3%, Germany 4.6%, Japan
4.4% (2003)

Imports:
$1.691 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals,
fuels

Imports - partners:
South Africa 51.3%, Congo, Democratic Republic of the 6.1%, Germany
2.8% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$78 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$3.404 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$178 million; note - the EU and the US provide food aid on
humanitarian grounds (2000 est.)

Currency:
Zimbabwean dollar (ZWD)

Currency code:
ZWD

Exchange rates:
Zimbabwean dollars per US dollar - NA (2003), 55.0358 (2002),
55.0521 (2001), 44.4179 (2000), 38.3012 (1999); note - these are
official exchange rates, non-official rates vary significantly

Fiscal year:
1 January - 31 December

Communications Zimbabwe

Telephones - main lines in use:
300,900 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
379,100 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: system was once one of the best in Africa, but
now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding
requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed
but unused main lines
domestic: consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines,
radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop
installations, and a substantial mobile cellular network; Internet
connection is available in Harare and planned for all major towns
and for some of the smaller ones
international: country code - 263; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat; two international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and
Gweru)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 20 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:
1.14 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
16 (1997)

Televisions:
370,000 (1997)

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