The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ March - 20 March

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      13% (2007 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      NA

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      18.14% (31 December 2007)

      Stock of money:

      $1.426 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of quasi money:

      $958.6 million (31 December 2007)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $20.06 million (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      opium, wheat, fruits, nuts; wool, mutton, sheepskins, lambskins

      Industries:

      small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, coal, copper

      Industrial production growth rate:

      NA%

      Electricity - production:

      839 million kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      1.088 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      230 million kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 36.3% hydro: 63.7% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      5,036 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      0 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      4,534 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      20 million cu m (2006 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      20 million cu m (2006 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      49.55 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

      Current account balance:

      NA

      Exports:

      $274 million; note - not including illicit exports or reexports (2006)

      Exports - commodities:

      opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems

      Exports - partners:

      India 22.8%, Pakistan 21.8%, US 20.5%, Tajikistan 7.2% (2007)

      Imports:

      $3.823 billion (2006)

      Imports - commodities:

      capital goods, food, textiles, petroleum products

      Imports - partners:

      Pakistan 36.8%, US 11%, India 5%, Germany 4.2% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $2.775 billion (2005)

      Debt - external:

      $8 billion in bilateral debt, mostly to Russia; Afghanistan has $500 million in debt to Multilateral Development Banks (2004)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $NA

      Currency (code):

      afghani (AFA)

      Currency code:

      AFA

      Exchange rates:

      afghanis (AFA) per US dollar - NA (2007), 46 (2006), 47.7 (2005), 48 (2004), 49 (2003)

      Communications

       Afghanistan

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      280,000 (2005)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      5.4 million (2008)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: limited landline telephone service; an increasing number of Afghans utilize mobile-cellular phone networks in major cities domestic: aided by the presence of multiple providers, mobile-cellular telephone service is improving rapidly international: country code - 93; five VSAT's installed in Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar, and Jalalabad provide international and domestic voice and data connectivity (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 21, FM 5, shortwave 1 (broadcasts in Pashto, Dari (Afghan

       Persian), Urdu, and English) (2006)

      Radios:

      167,000 (1999)

      Television broadcast stations:

      at least 7 (1 government-run central television station in Kabul and regional stations in 6 of the 34 provinces) (2006)

      Televisions:

      100,000 СКАЧАТЬ