mports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

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

Current account balance:
$1.69 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$8.214 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish

Exports - partners:
China 35.3%, India 16.2%, Thailand 11.9%, Japan 6.3%, South Korea
6.3%, Switzerland 5.5% (2005)

Imports:
$5.042 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals

Imports - partners:
UAE 18.9%, Saudi Arabia 8.9%, Switzerland 8.6%, Kuwait 6.7%, China
6.1%, US 4.5% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$6.735 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$5.469 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$2.3 billion (2003-07 disbursements)

Currency (code):
Yemeni rial (YER)

Currency code:
YER

Exchange rates:
Yemeni rials per US dollar - 197.467 (2006), 192.67 (2005), 184.78
(2004), 183.45 (2003), 175.63 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Yemen

Telephones - main lines in use:
900,000 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2,074,846 (2006)

Telephone system:
general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been
made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay,
cable, tropospheric scatter, and GSM cellular mobile telephone
systems
international: country code - 967; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik
(Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia and Djibouti

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:
1.05 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
7 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:
470,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.ye

Internet hosts:
171 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)

Internet users:
220,000 (2005)

Transportation Yemen

Airports:
46 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 16
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 30
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 11
under 914 m: 4 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 71 km; li