reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

Current account balance:

-$157 million (2007 est.)

Exports:

$683 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

sugar, gold, bauxite, alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses, rum, timber

Exports - partners:

Canada 18.7%, US 16.5%, UK 9.1%, Portugal 7.6%, Trinidad and Tobago
5.2%, France 4.7%, Netherlands 4.6%, Jamaica 4% (2007)

Imports:

$1.006 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

manufactures, machinery, petroleum, food

Imports - partners:

Trinidad and Tobago 26.2%, US 20.5%, Cuba 7.2%, China 7.1%, UK 5.4%
(2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$136.8 million (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$313 million (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$1.2 billion (2002)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$187.3 million (2005)

Currency (code):

Guyanese dollar (GYD)

Currency code:

GYD

Exchange rates:

Guyanese dollars (GYD) per US dollar - 201.89 (2007), 200.28 (2006),
200.79 (2005), 198.31 (2004), 193.88 (2003)

Communications
Guyana

Telephones - main lines in use:

110,100 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

281,400 (2005)

Telephone system:

general assessment: fair system for long-distance service
domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines; fixed-line
teledensity is about 15 per 100 persons; many areas still lack
fixed-line telephone services; mobile-cellular teledensity reached
37 per 100 persons in 2005
international: country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad;
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:

420,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

3 (1 public station; 2 private stations which relay US satellite
services) (1997)

Televisions:

46,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.gy

Internet hosts:

6,218 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

3 (2000)

Internet users:

190,000 (2007)

Transportation
Guyana

Airports:

93 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 9
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
under 914 m: 6 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 84
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 14
under 914 m: 69 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 7,970 km
paved: 590 km
unpaved: 7,380 km (2000)

Waterways:

Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers are navigable