duction growth rate:
17% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
6.049 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 99.8%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.2% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
5.626 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
150,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
34,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
990 million bbl (1 January 2004)

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

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

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$3.259 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$12.5 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, steel products,
fertilizer, sugar, cocoa, coffee, citrus, flowers

Exports - partners:
US 68.6%, Jamaica 5.4%, Barbados 2.9% (2005)

Imports:
$8.798 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, live
animals

Imports - partners:
US 27.2%, Venezuela 13.1%, Brazil 13.1%, Japan 5.4%, Canada 4.1%
(2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$6.888 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$2.838 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$24 million (1999 est.)

Currency (code):
Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)

Currency code:
TTD

Exchange rates:
Trinidad and Tobago dollars per US dollar - 6.2944 (2006), 6.2842
(2005), 6.299 (2004), 6.2951 (2003), 6.2487 (2002)

Fiscal year:
1 October - 30 September

Communications Trinidad and Tobago

Telephones - main lines in use:
323,500 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
800,000 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent international service; good local
service
domestic: NA
international: country code - 1-868; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Barbados and
Guyana

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 4, FM 18, shortwave 0 (2004)

Radios:
680,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
6 (2005)

Televisions:
425,000 (1