illion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$-444.4 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$2.429 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
aluminum, prawns, cashews, cotton, sugar, citrus, timber; bulk
electricity

Exports - partners:
Netherlands 59.7%, South Africa 16.2%, Zimbabwe 2.9% (2005)

Imports:
$2.815 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel, chemicals, metal products,
foodstuffs, textiles

Imports - partners:
South Africa 42.9%, Netherlands 11.5%, Portugal 3.6% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.353 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$2.392 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$632.8 million (2001)

Currency (code):
metical (MZM)

Currency code:
MZM

Exchange rates:
meticais per US dollar - 24.9245 (2006), 23,061 (2005), 22,581
(2004), 23,782 (2003), 23,678 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Mozambique

Telephones - main lines in use:
69,700 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.22 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system but not available generally
(extremely low density with less than 1 main line per 100 persons)
domestic: the system consists of open-wire lines and trunk
connection by microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
international: country code - 258; satellite earth stations - 5
Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 13, FM 17, shortwave 11 (2001)

Radios:
730,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)

Televisions:
67,600 (2000)

Internet country code:
.mz

Internet hosts:
6,985 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
11 (2002)

Internet users:
138,000 (2005)

Transportation Mozambique

Airports:
158 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 22
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 5 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 136
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 34
under 914 m: 87 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 918 km; refined products 294 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 3,123 km
narrow gauge: 2,983 km 1.067-m gauge; 140 km 0.762-m gauge (2005)

Roadways:
total: 30,400 km
paved: 5,685 km
unpaved: 24,715 km (1999)

Waterways:
460 km (Zambezi River navi