xports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products 95%, cocoa,
rubber

Exports - partners: US 35%, Spain 11%, India 9%, France 6%, Italy
(1998 est.)

Imports: $10 billion (f.o.b., 1999)

Imports - commodities: machinery, chemicals, transport equipment,
manufactured goods, food and live animals

Imports - partners: UK 13%, US 12%, Germany 10%, France 9%,
Netherlands (1998 est.)

Debt - external: $29 billion (1999 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $39.2 million (1995)

Currency: 1 naira (N) = 100 kobo

Exchange rates: nairas (N) per US$1 - 96.261 (October 1999), 99
(1999), 21.886 (1998), 21.886 (1997), 21.895 (1995)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Nigeria:Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 405,000 (1995)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 10,000 (1999)

Telephone system: an inadequate system, further limited by poor
maintenance; major expansion is required and a start has been made
domestic: intercity traffic is carried by coaxial cable, microwave
radio relay, a domestic communications satellite system with 19 earth
stations, and a coastal submarine cable; mobile cellular facilities
and the Internet are available
international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean
and 1 Indian Ocean); coaxial submarine cable SAFE (South African Far
East)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 82, FM 35, shortwave 11 (1998)

Radios: 23.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 2 government-controlled; note - in
addition, in 1993, 14 licenses to operate private television stations
were granted (1999)

Televisions: 6.9 million (1997)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 5 (1999)

@Nigeria:Transportation

Railways:
total: 3,557 km
narrow gauge: 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge
standard gauge: 52 km 1.435-m gauge
note: years of neglect of both the rolling stock and the right-of-way
have seriously reduced the capacity and utility of the system; a
project to restore Nigeria's railways is now underway

Highways:
total: 194,394 km
paved: 60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
unpaved: 134,326 km (1998 est.)
note: many of the roads reported as paved may be graveled; because of
poor maintenance and years of heavy freight traffic (in part the
result of the failure of the railroad system), much of the road system
is barely usable

Waterways: 8,575 km consisting of the Niger and Benue rivers and
smaller rivers and creeks

Pipelines: crude oil 2,042 km; petroleum products 3,000 km; natural
ga