0.6501 (2001), 0.5403 (2000), 0.5403 (1999), 0.3785 (1998), 0.3891 (1997);
market rate for Libyan dinars per US dollar - 1.55 (January 2002) note:
Libya devalued its official rate for foreign trade on 1 January 2002 to
21.30 dinars per US dollar; the previous official rate was 0.63 dinar
per US dollar (Dec 2001)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Libya

Telephones - main lines in use: 380,000 (1996)

Telephones - mobile cellular: NA

Telephone system: general assessment: telecommunications system is
being modernized; mobile cellular telephone system became operational in
1996 domestic: and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
international: submarine cables to France and Italy; microwave radio
relay to Tunisia and Egypt; tropospheric scatter to Greece; participant
in Medarabtel (1999)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 17, FM 4, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios: 1.35 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 12 (plus one low-power repeater) (1998)

Televisions: 730,000 (1997)

Internet country code: .ly

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000)

Internet users: 20,000 (2001)

Transportation Libya

Railways: note: Libya has had no railroad in operation since 1965, all
previous systems having been dismantled; current plans are to construct
a 1.435-m standard-gauge line from the Tunisian frontier to Tripoli
and Misratah, then inland to Sabha, center of a mineral-rich area, but
there has been little progress; other plans made jointly with Egypt would
establish a rail line from As Sallum, Egypt, to Tobruk with completion
originally set for mid-1994; Libya signed contracts with two private
companies - Bahne of Egypt and Jez Sistemas Ferroviarios of Spain -
in 1998 for the supply of crossings and pointwork (2001)

Highways: total: 24,484 km paved: 6,798 km unpaved: 17,686 km note:
data for the length of unpaved roads include the assumption that because
they were listed as secondary roads, they are unpaved; some may be paved
and some part of the primary roads may not be paved (1996)

Waterways: none

Pipelines: crude oil 4,383 km; petroleum products 443 km (includes
liquefied petroleum gas or LPG 256 km); natural gas 1,947 km

Ports and harbors: Al Khums, Banghazi, Darnah, Marsa al Burayqah,
Misratah, Ra's Lanuf, Tobruk, Tripoli, Zuwarah

Merchant marine: total: 23 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 209,000
GRT/278,277 DWT ships by type: cargo 9, chemical tanker 1