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Electricity - production by source: |
fossil fuel: 8.5% hydro: 91.5% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001) |
Electricity - consumption: |
1.96 billion kWh (2006) |
Electricity - exports: |
101 million kWh (2006) |
Electricity - imports: |
266 million kWh (2006) |
Oil - production: |
0 bbl/day (2005 est.) |
Oil - consumption: |
11,550 bbl/day (2006 est.) |
Oil - exports: |
0 bbl/day (2004) |
Oil - imports: |
11,530 bbl/day (2006 est.) |
Oil - proved reserves: |
0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.) |
Natural gas - production: |
0 cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - consumption: |
0 cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - exports: |
0 cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - imports: |
0 cu m (2005) |
Natural gas - proved reserves: |
0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.) |
Exports: |
$830 million f.o.b.; note - does not include unrecorded border trade with India (2006) |
Exports - commodities: |
carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain |
Exports - partners: |
India 67.9%, US 11.7%, Germany 4.7% (2006) |
Imports: |
$2.398 billion f.o.b. (2006) |
Imports - commodities: |
gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer |
Imports - partners: |
India 61.8%, China 3.8%, Indonesia 3.3% (2006) |
Economic aid - recipient: |
$427.9 million (2005) |
Debt - external: |
$3.07 billion (March 2006) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: |
$NA |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: |
$NA |
Market value of publicly traded shares: |
$963.5 million (2005) |
Currency (code): |
Nepalese rupee (NPR) |
Currency code: |
NPR |
Exchange rates: |
Nepalese rupees per US dollar - NA (2007), 72.446 (2006), 72.16 (2005), 73.674 (2004), 76.141 (2003) |
Fiscal year: |
16 July - 15 July |
Telephones - main lines in use: |
595,800 (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular: |
1.042 million (2006) |
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 (2000) |
Radios: |
840,000 (1997) |
Television broadcast stations: |
1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998) |
Televisions: |
130,000 (1997) |
Internet country code: |
.np |
Internet hosts: |
18,733 (2007) |
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): |
6 (2000) |
Internet users: |
249,400 (2006) |
Airports: |
47 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways: |
total: 10 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 8 under 914 m: 1 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways: |
total: 37 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 6 under 914 m: 30 (2007) |
Railways: |
total: 59 km narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2006) |
Roadways: |
total: 17,380 km paved: 9,886 km unpaved: 7,494 km (2004) |
Military branches: |
Nepalese Army, Armed Police Force (2008) |
Military service age and obligation: |
18 years of age for voluntary military service; 15 years of age for military training; no conscription (2008) |
Manpower available for military service: |
males age 18-49: 6,107,091 females age 18-49: 5,744,989 (2005 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service: |
males age 18-49: 4.193 million females age 18-49: 3,853,102 (2005 est.) |
Manpower reaching military service age annually: |
males age 18-49: 308,031 females age 18-49: 286,604 (2005 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: |
1.6% (2006) |
Transnational Issues |
Nepal |
Disputes - international: |
joint border commission continues to work on contested sections of boundary with India, including the 400 square kilometer dispute over the source of the Kalapani River; India has instituted a stricter border regime to restrict transit of Maoist insurgents and illegal cross-border activities; approximately 106,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in refugee camps in southeastern Nepal since 1990 |
Refugees and internally displaced persons: |
refugees (country of origin): 106,248 (Bhutan), 20,153 (Tibet/China) IDPs: 100,000-200,000 (ongoing conflict between government forces and Maoist rebels; displacement spread across the country) (2006) |
Illicit drugs: |
illicit producer of cannabis and hashish for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West |
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