of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rice, beans, potatoes,
corn, bananas; cattle, pigs, dairy products, beef, eggs

Industries:
tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles,
cement, tobacco

Industrial production growth rate:
2% (2001 est.)

Electricity - production:
15.02 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 92%
hydro: 7.6%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.4% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
13.96 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
11.95 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
127,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
129,900 bbl/day (2003)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
130 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
130 million cu m

Current account balance:
$-1.124 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$6.495 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
ferronickel, sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats,
consumer goods

Exports - partners:
US 78.9%, Netherlands 2.4%, Mexico 1.9% (2005)

Imports:
$11.39 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics, chemicals and
pharmaceuticals

Imports - partners:
US 50%, Colombia 6.2%, Mexico 5.8% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.106 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$8.634 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$571.6 million (2004)

Currency (code):
Dominican peso (DOP)

Currency code:
DOP

Exchange rates:
Dominican pesos per US dollar - 33.6046 (2006), 30.409 (2005),
42.12 (2004), 30.831 (2003), 18.61 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Dominican Republic

Telephones - main lines in use:
894,500 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
3.623 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: relatively efficient system based on island-wide microwave
radio relay network
international: country code - 1-809; 1 coaxial submarine cable;
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 120, FM 56, shortwave 4 (1998)

Radios:
1.44 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
25 (2003)

Televisions:
770,000 (1997