14.5%, Germany 7.4%, France 5.8% (2007)

Imports:

$84.76 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals,
petroleum and petroleum products, textiles, clothing

Imports - partners:

UK 38.3%, US 11.3%, Germany 9.7%, Netherlands 5%, France 4.2% (2007)

Economic aid - donor:

ODA, $1.022 billion (2006)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$926.2 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:

$1.841 trillion (30 June 2007)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$191.4 billion (2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$139.6 billion (2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$114.1 billion (2005)

Currency (code):

euro (EUR)

Currency code:

EUR

Exchange rates:

euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041
(2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003)

Communications
Ireland

Telephones - main lines in use:

2.112 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

4.94 million (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: modern digital system using cable and microwave
radio relay
domestic: microwave radio relay
international: country code - 353; landing point for the
Hibernia-Atlantic submarine cable with links to the US, Canada, and
UK; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 9, FM 106, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:

2.55 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

4 (many repeaters) (2001)

Televisions:

1.82 million (2001)

Internet country code:

.ie

Internet hosts:

1.242 million (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

22 (2000)

Internet users:

1.708 million (2007)

Transportation
Ireland

Airports:

34 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 15
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 5 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 19
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 16 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 1,855 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 3,237 km
broad gauge: 1,872 km 1.600-m gauge (37 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat
Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants)
(2006)

Roadways:

total: 96,602 km
paved: 96,602 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2003)

Waterways:

95