(2005)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 8.5%
hydro: 91.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.85 billion kWh (2005)

Electricity - exports:
111 million kWh (2005)

Electricity - imports:
241 million kWh (2005)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
11,980 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day

Oil - imports:
11,760 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Exports:
$822 million f.o.b.; note - does not include unrecorded border
trade with India (2005 est.)

Exports - commodities:
carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain

Exports - partners:
India 53.7%, US 17.4%, Germany 7.1% (2005)

Imports:
$2 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)

Imports - commodities:
gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer

Imports - partners:
India 47.7%, UAE 11.2%, China 10.8%, Saudi Arabia 4.9%, Kuwait 4.2%
(2005)

Debt - external:
$3.34 billion (March 2005)

Economic aid - recipient:
$424 million (FY00/01)

Currency (code):
Nepalese rupee (NPR)

Currency code:
NPR

Exchange rates:
Nepalese rupees per US dollar - 71.368 (2005), 73.674 (2004),
76.141 (2003), 77.877 (2002)

Fiscal year:
16 July - 15 July

Communications Nepal

Telephones - main lines in use:
448,600 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
248,800 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair
radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone
network
domestic: NA
international: country code - 977; radiotelephone communications;
microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat
(Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (January 2000)

Radios:
840,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998)

Televisions:
130,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.np

Internet hosts:
17,789 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
6 (2000)

Internet users:
175,000 (2005)

Transportation Nepal

Airports:
48 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 10
over 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 2 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 38
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 8
under 914 m: 29 (2006)

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