Currency code:
XAF

Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 527.47
(2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Central African Republic

Telephones - main lines in use:
10,000 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
60,000 (2004)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system
domestic: network consists principally of microwave radio relay and
low-capacity, low-powered radiotelephone communication
international: country code - 236; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 1 (2002)

Radios:
283,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)

Televisions:
18,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.cf

Internet hosts:
10 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)

Internet users:
9,000 (2005)

Transportation Central African Republic

Airports:
50 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 47
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 23
under 914 m: 13 (2006)

Roadways:
total: 23,810 km (1999)

Waterways:
2,800 km (primarily on the Oubangui and Sangha rivers) (2005)

Ports and terminals:
Bangui, Nola, Salo, Nzinga

Military Central African Republic

Military branches:
Central African Armed Forces (FACA): Ground Forces, Military Air
Service; General Directorate of Gendarmerie Inspection (DGIG),
Republican Guard, National Police (2006)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military service;
conscript service obligation is two years (2005)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 853,760
females age 18-49: 835,426 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 416,091
females age 18-49: 383,056 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$16.37 million (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1% (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues Central African Republic

Disputes - international:
about 30,000 refugees fleeing the 2002 civil conflict in the CAR
still reside in southern Chad; periodic skirmishes over water and
grazing rights among related pastoral populations along the border
with southern Sudan pers