d repair, construction; food
and beverages, textiles, footwear, clothing, tobacco

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity - production:
1.768 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.644 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
20,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-250 million (2003)

Exports:
$2.175 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactures

Exports - partners:
Singapore 17.4%, US 11.6%, UK 9.4%, Germany 8.8%, France 7.5%,
China 7% (2003)

Imports:
$2.761 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured and
semi-manufactured goods; food, drink, and tobacco

Imports - partners:
Italy 19.3%, France 13.7%, UK 8.5%, Germany 6.6%, Singapore 6.1%,
Japan 5.7%, South Korea 5.5%, US 4.1% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$2.429 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$130 million (1997)

Economic aid - recipient:
NA

Currency:
Maltese lira (MTL)

Currency code:
MTL

Exchange rates:
Maltese liri per US dollar - 0.3772 (2003), 0.4336 (2002), 0.4501
(2001), 0.4382 (2000), 0.3989 (1999)

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Malta

Telephones - main lines in use:
208,300 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
290,000 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: automatic system satisfies normal requirements
domestic: submarine cable and microwave radio relay between islands
international: country code - 356; 2 submarine cables; satellite
earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 18, shortwave 6 (1999)

Radios:
255,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
6 (2000)

Televisions:
280,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.mt

Internet hosts:
7,156 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
6 (2002)

Internet users:
120,000 (2002)

Transportation Malta

Highways:
total: 2,254 km
paved: 1,972 km
unpaved: 282 km (2000)

Ports and harbors:
Marsaxlokk, Valletta

Merchant marine:
total: 1,176 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 25,102,401 GRT/41,176,791 DWT
by type: bulk 468, cargo 251, chemical tanker 46, combi