tures of $700
million (2003 est.)

Public debt:
57.5% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products:
fruit, vegetables; poultry, dairy products; shrimp, fish

Industries:
petroleum processing and refining, aluminum smelting, offshore
banking, ship repairing; tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
2% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production:
6.257 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
5.819 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
43,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
31,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
125 million bbl (1 January 2003)

Natural gas - production:
8.9 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
8.9 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
46 billion cu m (1 January 2003)

Current account balance:
$53 million (2003)

Exports:
$6.492 billion (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, aluminum, textiles

Exports - partners:
US 3.5%, India 3.3%, South Korea 2.2% (2003)

Imports:
$5.126 billion (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
crude oil, machinery, chemicals

Imports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 30.7%, US 11.4%, Japan 7.8%, UK 5.7%, Germany 5.4%
(2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$1.785 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$4.682 billion (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$150 million; note - $50 million annually since 1992 from each of
Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait (2002)

Currency:
Bahraini dinar (BHD)

Currency code:
BHD

Exchange rates:
Bahraini dinars per US dollar - 0.376 (2003), 0.376 (2002), 0.376
(2001), 0.376 (2000), 0.376 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Bahrain

Telephones - main lines in use:
185,800 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
443,100 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system
domestic: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network
with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones
international: country code - 973; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and
UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to
Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat
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