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, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products processing; oil refining, cement; tourism Industrial production growth rate: -0.7% (2001 est.) Electricity - production: 4.616 billion kWh (2000) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 21.66% hydro: 70.4% other: 7.94% (2000) nuclear: 0% Electricity - consumption: 4.433 billion kWh (2000) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000) Electricity - imports: 140 million kWh (2000) Agriculture - products: coffee, tea, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit, vegetables; dairy products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs Exports: $1.8 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.) Exports - commodities: tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement Exports - partners: UK 13.5%, Tanzania 12.5%, Uganda 12.0%, Germany 5.5% (2000) Imports: $3.1 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.) Imports - commodities: machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics Imports - partners: UK 12%, UAE 9.8%, Japan 6.5%, India 4.4% (2000) Debt - external: $8 billion (2001 est.) Economic aid - recipient: $457 million (1997) Currency: Kenyan shilling (KES) Currency code: KES Exchange rates: Kenyan shillings per US dollar - 78.597 (January 2002), 78.563 (2001), 76.176 (2000), 70.326 (1999), 60.367 (1998), 58.732 (1997) Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June Communications Kenya Telephones - main lines in use: 310,000 (2001) Telephones - mobile cellular: 540,000 (2001) Telephone system: general assessment: unreliable; little attempt to modernize except for service to business domestic: trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; business data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system international: satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat Radio broadcast stations: AM 24, FM 18, shortwave 6 (2001) Radios: 3.07 million (1997) Television broadcast stations: 8 (2002) Televisions: 730,000 (1997) Internet country code: .ke Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 65 (2001) Internet users: 250,000 (2001) Transportation Kenya Railways: total: 2,778 km narrow gauge: 2,778 km 1.000-m gauge note: the line connecting Nairobi with the port of Mombasa is the most important in the country Highways: total: 63,800 km paved: 8,932 km unpaved: 54,868 km (2001) Waterways: NA note: part of the Lake Victoria system is within the boundaries of Kenya Pipelines: petroleum p
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