l: 99.64%
hydro: 0.36%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 5.52 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: wheat, barley, citrus, tomatoes, melons,
olives; sheep, goats, poultry

Exports: $1.5 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.)

Exports--commodities: phosphates, fertilizers, potash,
agricultural products, manufactures

Exports--partners: Iraq, India, Saudi Arabia, EU, Indonesia, UAE,
Syria, Ethiopia

Imports: $3.9 billion (c.i.f., 1997 est.)

Imports--commodities: crude oil, machinery, transport equipment,
food, live animals, manufactured goods

Imports--partners: EU, Iraq, US, Japan, Turkey, Malaysia, Syria,
China

Debt--external: $7.5 billion (1998 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $1.097 billion (1995); note?received $320
million from ODA in 1998 (est.)

Currency: 1 Jordanian dinar (JD) = 1,000 fils

Exchange rates: Jordanian dinars (JD) per US$1--0.7090 (January
1999-1996), 0.7005 (1995), 0.6987 (1994), 0.6928 (1993)
note: since May 1989, the dinar has been pegged to a basket of
currencies

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 425,000 (1998)

Telephone system:
domestic: microwave radio relay, coaxial and fiber-optic cable, and
cellular; Jordan has two cellular telephone providers (with
approximately 50,000 subscribers in 1998), ten data service
providers, and four Internet service providers (with approximately
8,000 subscribers in 1998)
international: satellite earth stations--3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and
29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals (1996); coaxial cable,
fiber-optic cable, and microwave radio relay to Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, and Israel; building a Red Sea Fiber-Optic Link Around the
Globe (FLAG) fiber-optic submarine cable link and planning to update
links with Saudi Arabia and Israel to fiber-optic cable; 4,000
international circuits (1998 est.); participant in Medarabtel

Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 7, shortwave 1 (1998 est.)

Radios: 1.1 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 8 (in addition, there are
approximately 42 repeaters and 1 TV receive-only satellite link)
(1997)

Televisions: 350,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 677 km
narrow gauge: 677 km 1.050-m gauge; note--an additional 110 km
stretch of the old Hejaz railroad is out of use (1998 est.)