proved reserves:
22.65 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$-906 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$1.831 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
gold, coffee, cashew nuts, manufactures, cotton

Exports - partners:
China 10.2%, Canada 8.7%, India 7.3%, Netherlands 5.2%, Japan 4.5%,
Kenya 4.4%, Germany 4.3% (2005)

Imports:
$3.18 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
consumer goods, machinery and transportation equipment, industrial
raw materials, crude oil

Imports - partners:
South Africa 13.1%, China 9.5%, India 7%, UAE 6%, Kenya 5.1%, UK
4.1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.375 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$4.61 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$1.2 billion (2001)

Currency (code):
Tanzanian shilling (TZS)

Currency code:
TZS

Exchange rates:
Tanzanian shillings per US dollar - 1,259.54 (2006), 1,128.93
(2005), 1,089.33 (2004), 1,038.42 (2003), 966.58 (2002)

Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June

Communications Tanzania

Telephones - main lines in use:
148,400 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.942 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system operating below capacity and being
modernized for better service; very small aperture terminal (VSAT)
system under construction
domestic: trunk service provided by open-wire, microwave radio
relay, tropospheric scatter, and fiber-optic cable; some links being
made digital
international: country code - 255; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:
8.8 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (1999)

Televisions:
103,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.tz

Internet hosts:
8,609 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
6 (2000)

Internet users:
333,000 (2005)

Transportation Tanzania

Airports:
124 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 113
1,524 to 2,437 m: 18
914 to 1,523 m: 62
under 914 m: 33 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 254 km; oil 872 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 3,690 km
narrow gauge: 969 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,721 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)

Road