Economic aid - recipient: $400 million (1999 est.)
Currency: 1 kina (K) = 100 toea
Exchange rates: kina (K) per US$1 - 2.7624 (November 1999), 2.520 (1999), 2.058 (1998), 1.434 (1997), 1.318 (1996), 1.276 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Papua New Guinea:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 44,000 (1995)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (1995)
Telephone system: services are adequate and being improved; facilities provide radiotelephone and telegraph, coastal radio, aeronautical radio, and international radio communication services domestic: mostly radiotelephone international: submarine cables to Australia and Guam; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); international radio communication service
Radio broadcast stations: AM 8, FM 19, shortwave 28 (1998)
Radios: 410,000 (1997)