y - production by source:
fossil fuel: 51.9%
hydro: 35.2%
nuclear: 0%
other: 12.9% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
6.649 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - exports:
464 million kWh (2004)
Electricity - imports:
41 million kWh (2004)
Oil - production:
22,300 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - consumption:
67,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - exports:
3,104 bbl/day (2003)
Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
263 million bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.087 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)
Current account balance:
$-2.028 billion (2006 est.)
Exports:
$4.097 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, fruits and vegetables,
cardamom
Exports - partners:
US 50.1%, El Salvador 12.1%, Honduras 7.3%, Mexico 4% (2005)
Imports:
$9.118 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Imports - commodities:
fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials,
grain, fertilizers, electricity
Imports - partners:
US 38.1%, Mexico 7.6%, El Salvador 4.8%, South Korea 4.8%, Panama
4.4% (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$3.959 billion (2006 est.)
Debt - external:
$6.169 billion (2006 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$250 million (2000 est.)
Currency (code):
quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed
Currency code:
GTQ; USD
Exchange rates:
quetzales per US dollar - 7.60102 (2006), 7.6339 (2005), 7.9465
(2004), 7.9409 (2003), 7.8217 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Guatemala
Telephones - main lines in use:
1,132,100 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
3,168,300 (2004)
Telephone system:
general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of
Guatemala
domestic: NA
international: country code - 502; connected to Central American
Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)
Radios:
835,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
1.323 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.gt
Internet hosts:
49,026 (2006)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2000)
Internet users:
756,000 (2005)
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