q 12.9%, India 8.3%, UAE 7.8%, Saudi Arabia 7.5%, Syria
4.9% (2007)

Imports:

$12.02 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

crude oil, textile fabrics, machinery, transport equipment,
manufactured goods

Imports - partners:

Saudi Arabia 21%, China 9.7%, Germany 7.5%, US 4.7%, Egypt 4.4%
(2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

ODA, $752 million (2005 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$7.929 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$8.133 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$18.18 billion (2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$29.73 billion (2006)

Currency (code):

Jordanian dinar (JOD)

Currency code:

JOD

Exchange rates:

Jordanian dinars (JOD) per US dollar - 0.709 (2007), 0.709 (2006),
0.709 (2005), 0.709 (2004), 0.709 (2003)

Communications
Jordan

Telephones - main lines in use:

585,500 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

4.771 million (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: service has improved recently with increased use
of digital switching equipment; microwave radio relay transmission
and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines;
growing mobile-cellular usage in both urban and rural areas is
reducing use of fixed-line services; Internet penetration remains
modest and slow-growing
domestic: 1995 telecommunications law opened all non-fixed-line
services to private competition; in 2005, monopoly over fixed-line
services terminated and the entire telecommunications sector was
opened to competition; mobile-cellular usage is increasing rapidly
and teledensity reached 80 per 100 persons in 2007
international: country code - 962; landing point for the Fiber-Optic
Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides
links to Asia, Middle East, Europe; satellite earth stations - 33 (3
Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals);
fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link
with Egypt and Syria; participant in Medarabtel (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:

FM 31 (2007)

Radios:

1.66 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

22 (2007)

Televisions:

500,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.jo

Internet hosts:

21,150 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

5 (2000)

Internet users:

1.127 million (2007)

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