18,500 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
37,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
3,356 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - imports:
49,230 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - proved reserves:
less than 1 billion bbl (2005)

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

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

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$1.247 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$5.289 billion f.o.b.
note: official export figures are grossly underestimated due to the
value of timber, gems, narcotics, rice, and other products smuggled
to Thailand, China, and Bangladesh (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
clothing, gas, wood products, pulses, beans, fish, rice

Exports - partners:
Thailand 43.8%, India 12.1%, China 6.7%, Japan 5% (2005)

Imports:
$2.049 billion f.o.b.
note: import figures are grossly underestimated due to the value of
consumer goods, diesel fuel, and other products smuggled in from
Thailand, China, Malaysia, and India (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
fabric, petroleum products, plastics, machinery, transport
equipment, construction materials, crude oil; food products

Imports - partners:
China 28.8%, Thailand 21.8%, Singapore 18.4%, Malaysia 7.6% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$932 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$7.162 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$127 million (2001 est.)

Currency (code):
kyat (MMK)

Currency code:
MMK

Exchange rates:
kyats per US dollar - 1,310 (2006), 5.761 (2005), 5.7459 (2004),
6.0764 (2003), 6.5734 (2002), note, these are official exchange
rates; unofficial exchange rates ranged in 2004 from 815 kyat/US
dollar to nearly 970 kyat/US dollar, and by year-end 2005, the
unofficial exchange rate was 1,075 kyat/US dollar

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Burma

Telephones - main lines in use:
476,200 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
183,400 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: barely meets minimum requirements for local and
intercity service for business and government; international service
is fair
domestic: NA
international: country code - 95; satellite earth station - 2,
Intelsat (Indian Ocean), and Shi