$320 million, including capital expenditures of
$178 million (2002 est.)

Industries: uranium mining, cement, brick, textiles, food processing,
chemicals, slaughterhouses

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity - production: 220 million kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% other: 0%
(2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 404.6 million kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 200 million kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: cowpeas, cotton, peanuts, millet, sorghum,
cassava (tapioca), rice; cattle, sheep, goats, camels, donkeys, horses,
poultry

Exports: $246 million (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Exports - commodities: uranium ore 65%, livestock products, cowpeas,
onions (1998 est.)

Exports - partners: France 43.4%, Nigeria 35.0%, Spain 4.5%, US 3.9%
(2000)

Imports: $331 million (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: consumer goods, primary materials, machinery,
vehicles and parts, petroleum, cereals

Imports - partners: France 16.8%, Cote d'Ivoire 13.4%, US 9.6%, Nigeria
7.6% (2000)

Debt - external: $1.6 billion (1999 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $341 million (1997) note: the IMF approved a
$73 million poverty reduction and growth facility for Niger in 2000 and
announced $115 million in debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor
Countries (HIPC) initiative

Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible
authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

Currency code: XOF

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US
dollar - 742.79 (January 2002), 733.04 (2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.70
(1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997); note - from 1 January 1999, the
XOF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF per euro

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Niger

Telephones - main lines in use: 20,000 (2001)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 6,700 (2002)

Telephone system: general assessment: small system of wire, radio
telephone communications, and microwave radio relay links concentrated
in the southwestern area of Niger domestic: wire, radiotelephone
communications, and microwave radio relay; domestic satellite system with
3 earth stations and 1 planned international: satellite earth stations -
2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 6, shortwave 4 (2001)

Radios: 680