consumption:
89,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
1.7 billion bbl (2006 est.)

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

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

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$-760 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$11.61 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
clothing, semi-finished goods and textiles, agricultural products,
mechanical goods, phosphates and chemicals, hydrocarbons

Exports - partners:
France 30.8%, Italy 21%, Germany 9.3%, Spain 5.5%, Libya 4.4% (2005)

Imports:
$13.89 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
textiles, machinery and equipment, hydrocarbons, chemicals,
foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
France 25.8%, Italy 23.1%, Germany 9.6%, Spain 5.6% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$6.646 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$18.37 billion (30 June 2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$328 million (2004)

Currency (code):
Tunisian dinar (TND)

Currency code:
TND

Exchange rates:
Tunisian dinars per US dollar - 1.31281 (2006), 1.2974 (2005),
1.2455 (2004), 1.2885 (2003), 1.4217 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Tunisia

Telephones - main lines in use:
1,257,500 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
5.681 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: above the African average and continuing to be
upgraded; key centers are Sfax, Sousse, Bizerte, and Tunis; Internet
access available
domestic: trunk facilities consist of open-wire lines, coaxial
cable, and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 216; 5 submarine cables; satellite
earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; coaxial
cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria and Libya; participant in
Medarabtel; two international gateway digital switches

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 20, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:
2.06 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
26 (plus 76 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:
920,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.tn

Internet hosts:
428 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2