5.5% (1999)

Electricity - production:
250 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2004)

Electricity - consumption:
244.5 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
12 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
1,400 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

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

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

Current account balance:
$-75.44 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$779.1 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
manufactures 75% (clothing, footwear, road vehicles), wool and
mohair, food and live animals (2000)

Exports - partners:
Hong Kong 41.8%, China 33.9%, Germany 7.9% (2005)

Imports:
$1.401 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
food; building materials, vehicles, machinery, medicines, petroleum
products (2000)

Imports - partners:
US 83.9%, Belgium 12.7%, Canada 2.4% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$528.2 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$735 million (2002)

Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $4.4 million

Economic aid - recipient:
$41.5 million (2000)

Currency (code):
loti (LSL); South African rand (ZAR)

Currency code:
LSL; ZAR

Exchange rates:
maloti per US dollar - 6.6 (2006), 6.3593 (2005), 6.4597 (2004),
7.5648 (2003), 10.5407 (2002)

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Lesotho

Telephones - main lines in use:
48,000 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
245,100 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: rudimentary system
domestic: consists of a modest but growing number of landlines, a
small microwave radio relay system, and a minor radiotelephone
communication system; a cellular mobile telephone system is growing
international: country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:
NA (2002)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2000)

Televisions:
NA

Internet country code:
.ls

Internet hosts:
168 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)

Internet users:
43,000 (2005)

Transportation Lesotho

Airports:
28 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 3
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