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llion expenditures: $629 million, including capital expenditures of $85 million (1999) Industries: fish processing (mainly shrimp and Greenland halibut), handicrafts, hides and skins, small shipyards, mining Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - production: 250 million kWh (2000) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% note: Greenland is shifting its electricity production from fossil fuel to hydroelectric power production (2000) hydro: 0% other: 0% nuclear: 0% Electricity - consumption: 232.5 million kWh (2000) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000) Agriculture - products: forage crops, garden and greenhouse vegetables; sheep, reindeer; fish Exports: $264 million (f.o.b., 2000) Exports - commodities: fish and fish products 94% (prawns 63%) Exports - partners: EU (mainly Denmark) 85%, Japan 8%, US 2% (1999) Imports: $349 million (c.i.f., 2000) Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, petroleum products Imports - partners: EU (mostly Denmark), Norway, US, Canada Debt - external: $25 million (1999) Economic aid - recipient: $380 million subsidy from Denmark (1999) Currency: Danish krone (DKK) Currency code: DKK Exchange rates: Danish kroner per US dollar - 8.418 (January 2002), 8.323 (2001), 8.083 (2000), 6.976 (1999), 6.701 (1998), 6.604 (1997) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Greenland Telephones - main lines in use: 25,617 (yearend 1999) Telephones - mobile cellular: 12,676 (yearend 1999) Telephone system: general assessment: adequate domestic and international service provided by satellite, cables and microwave radio relay; totally digitalized microwave radio relay and satellite international: (all Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 30,000 (1998 est.) Television broadcast stations: 1 publicly-owned station, some local low-power stations, and three AFRTS (US Air Force) stations (1997) Televisions: 30,000 (1998 est.) Internet country code: .gl Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000) Internet users: 17,800 (2001) Transportation Greenland Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 150 km paved: 60 km unpaved: 90 km Waterways: none Ports and harbors: Aasiaat (Egedesminde), Ilulissat (Jakobshavn), Kangerlussuaq, Nanortalik, Narsarsuaq, Nuuk (Godthab), Qaqo
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