Debt - external:
$2.1 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$94 million (1999)
Currency:
Liberian dollar (LRD)
Currency code:
LRD
Exchange rates:
Liberian dollars per US dollar - NA (2002), 48.58 (2001), 40.95
(2000), 41.9 (1999), 41.51 (1998)
note: until December 1997, rates were based on a fixed relationship
with the US dollar; beginning in January 1998, rates are market
determined
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Liberia
Telephones - main lines in use:
6,700 (2000)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
0 (1998)
Telephone system:
general assessment: telephone and telegraph service via microwave
radio relay network; main center is Monrovia
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)