External debt: $NA
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 birr (Br) = 100 cents; at present, Ethiopian currency
used
Exchange rates: birr (Br) per US$1 - 6.2 (1995 est.), 5.600 (September 1994), 5.000 (fixed rate 1992-93); note - following independence from Ethiopia, Eritrea continued to use Ethiopian currency, the official rate of which was pegged to US$1 = 5.000 birr
Fiscal year: calendar year
Transportation ———————
Railways:
total: 307 km; note - nonoperational since 1978 except for about 5
km that was reopened in Massawa in 1994; rehabilitation of the
remainder and of the rolling stock is under way; links Ak'ordat and
Asmara (formerly Asmera) with the port of Massawa (formerly Mits'iwa)
narrow gauge: 307 km 0.950-m gauge (1995 est.)
Highways: total: 3,845 km paved: 807 km unpaved: 3,038 km (1993 est.)
Ports: Assab (Aseb), Massawa (Mits'iwa)
Merchant marine:
total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 11,573 GRT/13,593
DWT (1995 est.)