bt - external:
$1.2 billion (2002)

Economic aid - recipient:
$84 million (1995), Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC)
$253 million (1997)

Currency (code):
Guyanese dollar (GYD)

Currency code:
GYD

Exchange rates:
Guyanese dollars per US dollar - 200.281 (2006), 200.79 (2005),
198.31 (2004), 193.88 (2003), 190.67 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Guyana

Telephones - main lines in use:
110,100 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
281,400 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system for long-distance service
domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines
international: country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad;
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:
420,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (one public station; two private stations which relay US
satellite services) (1997)

Televisions:
46,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.gy

Internet hosts:
1,046 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
3 (2000)

Internet users:
160,000 (2005)

Transportation Guyana

Airports:
90 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 9
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
under 914 m: 6 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 81
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 14
under 914 m: 65 (2006)

Railways:
total: 187 km
standard gauge: 139 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 48 km 0.914-m gauge
note: all dedicated to ore transport (2001 est.)

Roadways:
total: 7,970 km
paved: 590 km
unpaved: 7,380 km (1999)

Waterways:
Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers are navigable by oceangoing
vessels for 150 km, 100 km, and 80 km respectively (2005)

Merchant marine:
total: 7 ships (1000 GRT or over) 12,461 GRT/15,155 DWT
by type: cargo 5, petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 1
foreign-owned: 1 (Germany 1)
registered in other countries: 4 (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
3, unknown 1) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Georgetown

Military Guyana

Military branches:
Guyana Defense Force: Ground Forces, Coast Guard, Air Corps (2006)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 206,098 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 137,964 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$6.48 million (2003 es