orts:
0 bbl/day (2000 est.)

Oil - imports:
147,800 bbl/day (2000 est.)

Oil - proved reserves:
100 million bbl (2006 est.)

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

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

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m

Natural gas - proved reserves:
1.218 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$389 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$11.72 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
clothing, fish, inorganic chemicals, transistors, crude minerals,
fertilizers (including phosphates), petroleum products, fruits,
vegetables

Exports - partners:
France 30.3%, Spain 18%, UK 6.2%, Italy 5.2%, India 4.1% (2005)

Imports:
$21.22 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
crude petroleum, textile fabric, telecommunications equipment,
wheat, gas and electricity, transistors, plastics

Imports - partners:
France 18.2%, Spain 11%, Saudi Arabia 6.8%, Russia 6.8%, Italy
6.1%, China 5.2%, Germany 4.7% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$18.21 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$17.9 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
ODA, $706 million (2004)

Currency (code):
Moroccan dirham (MAD)

Currency code:
MAD

Exchange rates:
Moroccan dirhams per US dollar - 8.77508 (2006), 8.865 (2005),
8.868 (2004), 9.574 (2003), 11.021 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Morocco

Telephones - main lines in use:
1,341,200 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
12.393 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system with all important capabilities;
however, density is low with only 4 main lines available for each
100 persons
domestic: good system composed of open-wire lines, cables, and
microwave radio relay links; Internet available but expensive;
principal switching centers are Casablanca and Rabat; national
network nearly 100% digital using fiber-optic links; improved rural
service employs microwave radio relay
international: country code - 212; 7 submarine cables; satellite
earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat;
microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara;
coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria; participant in
Medarabtel; fiber-optic cable link from Agadir to Algeria and
Tunisia (1998)

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