.2%, Spain 5.5%, Brazil
5.3%, France 4.7%, Belgium 4.6% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$166.4 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$325 million (2002)

Economic aid - recipient:
$136 million (1999)

Currency (code):
Cape Verdean escudo (CVE)

Currency code:
CVE

Exchange rates:
Cape Verdean escudos (CVE) per US dollar - 86.2664 (2006), 88.67
(2005), 88.808 (2004), 97.703 (2003), 117.168 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Cape Verde

Telephones - main lines in use:
71,400 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
81,700 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: effective system, extensive modernization from
1996-2000 following partial privatization in 1995
domestic: major service provider is Cabo Verde Telecom (CVT); fiber
optic ring, completed in 2001, links all islands providing Internet
access and ISDN services; cellular service introduced in 1998
international: country code - 238; 2 coaxial submarine cables; HF
radiotelephone to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station
- 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 22 (and 12 low power repeaters), shortwave 0 (2002)

Radios:
100,000 (2002 est.)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (and 7 repeaters) (2002)

Televisions:
15,000 (2002 est.)

Internet country code:
.cv

Internet hosts:
234 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)

Internet users:
25,000 (2005)

Transportation Cape Verde

Airports:
7 (2006)

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

Roadways:
total: 1,350 km
paved: 932 km
unpaved: 418 km (2000)

Merchant marine:
total: 7 ships (1000 GRT or over) 12,300 GRT/7,726 DWT
by type: cargo 2, chemical tanker 1, passenger/cargo 4
foreign-owned: 2 (Spain 1, UK 1) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Mindelo, Praia, Tarrafal

Military Cape Verde

Military branches:
People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARP): Army, Coast Guard
(includes maritime air wing)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 84,641
females age 18-49: 87,310 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 65,614
females age 18-49: 73,662 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$7.18 million (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.7