Wh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 78.72%
hydro: 21.28%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 53.754 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits,
vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats; fish
Exports: $4.6 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, cotton,
textiles, metal products, chemicals
Exports - partners: EU 47%, US 14%, Turkey 8% (1998)
Imports: $15.8 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals,
wood products, fuels
Imports - partners: EU 42%, US 16%, Japan 5% (1998)
Debt - external: $30 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $2.25 billion (1999)
Currency: 1 Egyptian pound = 100 piasters
Exchange rates: Egyptian pounds per US$1 - market rate - 3.4050
(January 2000), 3.4050 (1999), 3.3880 (1998), 3.3880 (1997), 3.3880
(1996), 3.3900 (1995)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
@Egypt:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 3.168 million (1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 380,000 (1999)
Telephone system: large system by Third World standards but inadequate
for present requirements and undergoing extensive upgrading; Internet
access available
domestic: principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah,
Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave
radio relay
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean
and Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat; 5 coaxial submarine
cables; tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to
Israel; a participant in Medarabtel and a signatory to Project Oxygen
(a global submarine fiber-optic cable system)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 42 (plus 15 repeater stations), FM 14,
shortwave 3 (1999)
Radios: 20.5 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 51 (September 1995)
Televisions: 7.7 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 31 (1999)
@Egypt:Transportation
Railways:
total: 4,955 km
standard gauge: 4,955 km 1,435-m gauge (42 km electrified; 1,560 km
double track)
Highways:
total: 64,000 km
paved: 49,984 km
unpaved: 14,016 km (1996 est.)
Waterways: 3,500 km (including the Nile, Lake Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo
Waterway, and numerous smaller canals in the delta); Suez Canal, 193.5
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