Imports—partners: Denmark 34.5%, Norway 15.9%, UK 8.4% Germany 7.8%, Sweden 5.8%, US 1.5%
Debt—external: $767 million (1995 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $150 million (annual subsidy from
Denmark) (1995)
Currency: 1 Danish krone (DKr) = 100 oere
Exchange rates: Danish kroner (DKr) per US$1—6.408 (January 1999), 6.701 (1998), 6.604 (1997), 5.799 (1966), 5.602 (1995), 6.361 (1994)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications
Telephones: 22,500 (3,500 cellular telephone subscribers) (1996)
Telephone system: good international communications; good
domestic facilities
domestic: digitalization was to hve been completed in 1998
international: satellite earth stations—1 Orion; 1 fiber-optic
submarine cable linking the Faroe Islands with Denmark and Iceland
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1 (repeaters 13), shortwave 0