. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
clothing, pharmaceuticals, potash, phosphates, fertilizers,
vegetables, manufactures

Exports - partners:
US 26.2%, Iraq 17.1%, India 8.1%, Saudi Arabia 5.9%, Syria 4.7%
(2005)

Imports:
$10.42 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
crude oil, textile fabrics, machinery, transport equipment,
manufactured goods

Imports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 23.6%, China 9.2%, Germany 8%, US 5.6% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$5.55 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$9.071 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
ODA, $752 million (2005 est.)

Currency (code):
Jordanian dinar (JOD)

Currency code:
JOD

Exchange rates:
Jordanian dinars per US dollar - 0.709 (2006), 0.709 (2005), 0.709
(2004), 0.709 (2003), 0.709 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Jordan

Telephones - main lines in use:
628,200 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
3,012,800 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: service has improved recently with increased
use of digital switching equipment, but better access to the
telephone system is needed in the rural areas and easier access to
pay telephones is needed by the urban public
domestic: microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and
fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; considerable use of
mobile cellular systems; Internet service is available
international: country code - 962; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals;
fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link
with Egypt and Syria; connection to international submarine cable
FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); participant in MEDARABTEL;
international links total about 4,000

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (1999)

Radios:
1.66 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
20 (plus 96 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:
500,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.jo

Internet hosts:
3,441 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2000)

Internet users:
629,500 (2005)

Transportation Jordan

Airports:
17 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 15
over 3,047 m: 7
2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 2
under 914 m: 2 (2006)

Heliports: