Economic aid - recipient:
$77 million (1999)

Currency (code):
nakfa (ERN)

Currency code:
ERN

Exchange rates:
nakfa (ERN) per US dollar - 14 (2006), 14.5 (2005), 13.788 (2004),
13.878 (2003), 13.958 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Eritrea

Telephones - main lines in use:
37,700 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
58,000 (2006)

Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate
domestic: inadequate; most telephones are in Asmara; government is
seeking international tenders to improve the system (2002)
international: country code - 291; note - international connections
exist

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM NA, shortwave 2 (2000)

Radios:
345,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
2 (2006)

Televisions:
1,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.er

Internet hosts:
1,088 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2001)

Internet users:
70,000 (2005)

Transportation Eritrea

Airports:
17 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 4
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 13
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 2 (2006)

Railways:
total: 306 km
narrow gauge: 306 km 0.950-m gauge (2005)

Roadways:
total: 4,010 km
paved: 874 km
unpaved: 3,136 km (1999)

Merchant marine:
total: 6 ships (1000 GRT or over) 19,506 GRT/23,649 DWT
by type: cargo 3, liquefied gas 1, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll
off 1 (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Assab, Massawa

Military Eritrea

Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military service;
conscript service obligation - 16 months (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 893,361
females age 18-49: 891,662 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 555,553
females age 18-49: 562,426 (2005)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 50,156
females age 18-49: 49,746 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$220.1 million (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
17.7% (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues Eritrea

Disputes - international:
Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea
Boundary Comm