l production growth rate:
17% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
3.506 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 90.6%
hydro: 9.4%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
6.731 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
130 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
3.6 billion kWh (2004)

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

Oil - consumption:
14,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

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

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

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

Natural gas - imports:
2.17 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-561 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$1.02 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
foodstuffs, textiles, machinery

Exports - partners:
Russia 32.9%, Italy 12.7%, Romania 10.6%, Ukraine 9.5%, Belarus
6.7%, Germany 4.5% (2005)

Imports:
$2.65 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
mineral products and fuel, machinery and equipment, chemicals,
textiles (2000)

Imports - partners:
Ukraine 20.9%, Russia 11.7%, Romania 11.2%, Germany 8.3%, Italy
6.6%, Turkey 4.1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$680 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$2.142 billion (30 June 2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$100 million (2000)

Currency (code):
Moldovan leu (MDL)

Currency code:
MDL

Exchange rates:
lei per US dollar - 13.1571 (2006), 12.6 (2005), 12.33 (2004),
13.945 (2003), 13.571 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Moldova

Telephones - main lines in use:
929,400 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.09 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside
Chisinau; some modernization is under way
domestic: depending on location, new subscribers may face long wait
for service; two private operators of GSM mobile cellular telephone
service are operating; GPRS system is being introduced; license for
one CDMA mobile telephone network currently being tendered.
international: country code - 373; service through Romania and
Russia via landline; satellite earth stations - Intelsat, Eutelsat,
and Intersputnik

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 29 (2004)

Radios:
3.