Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day

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

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

Exports:
$222 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions

Exports - partners:
France 47.9%, Nigeria 21.4%, US 20.3% (2005)

Imports:
$588 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery, vehicles and parts, petroleum, cereals

Imports - partners:
France 14.5%, US 10.7%, French Polynesia 7.6%, Nigeria 7.5%, Italy
6.8%, Cote d'Ivoire 5.1%, Belgium 4.6%, Germany 4.5%, China 4.5%
(2005)

Debt - external:
$2.1 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$453.3 million (2003)

Currency (code):
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible
authority is the Central Bank of the West African States (BCEAO)

Currency code:
XOF

Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 527.47
(2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Niger

Telephones - main lines in use:
24,000 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
299,900 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: small system of wire, radio telephone
communications, and microwave radio relay links concentrated in the
southwestern area of Niger
domestic: wire, radiotelephone communications, and microwave radio
relay; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned
international: country code - 227; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 5, FM 6, shortwave 4 (2001)

Radios:
680,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (plus seven low-power repeaters) (2002)

Televisions:
125,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.ne

Internet hosts:
189 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)

Internet users:
24,000 (2005)

Transportation Niger

Airports:
28 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 9
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
under 914 m: 1 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 19
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 15
under 914 m: 2 (2006)

Roadways:
total: 14,565 km
paved: 3,641 km
unpaved: 10,924 km (2004)

Waterways:
300 km (the Niger, the only major river, is navigable to Gaya
between September and March) (200