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