: 25.91%
other: 4.06% (2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 41.146 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 3.767 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 4.698 billion kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: grain, potatoes, olives, grapes; sheep, cattle,
goats, poultry, beef, dairy products

Exports: $24.8 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Exports - commodities: clothing and footwear, machinery, chemicals,
cork and paper products, hides

Exports - partners: EU 79% (Spain 19%, Germany 18%, France 13%, UK 11%,
Benelux 6%), US 6% (2000)

Imports: $37.8 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, chemicals,
petroleum, textiles, agricultural products

Imports - partners: EU 74% (Spain 25%, Germany 14%, France 11%, Italy
7%, UK 6%), US 3%, Japan 3% (2000)

Debt - external: $13.1 billion (1997 est.)

Economic aid - donor: ODA, $271 million (1995)

Currency: euro (EUR); Portuguese escudo (PTE) note: on 1 January 1999,
the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to
be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002,
the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the
member countries

Currency code: EUR; PTE

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 1.1324 (January 2002), 1.1175
(2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); Portuguese escudos per US dollar -
180.10 (1998), 175.31 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Portugal

Telephones - main lines in use: 5.3 million (yearend 1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 3,074,194 (1999)

Telephone system: general assessment: undergoing rapid development in
recent years, Portugal's telephone system, by the end of 1998, achieved
a state-of-the-art network with broadband, high-speed capabilities and a
main line telephone density of 53% domestic: integrated network of coaxial
cables, open wire, microwave radio relay, and domestic satellite earth
stations international: 6 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric
scatter to Azores; note - an earth station for Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean
region) is planned

Radio broadcast stations: AM 47, FM 172 (many are repeaters), shortwave 2
(1998)

Radios: 3.02 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 62 (plus 166 repeaters) note: includes
Azores and Madeira Islands (1995)

Televisions: 3.31 million (1997)