Debt - external:
$1 billion (2002 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$60.7 million from US (2001)
Currency:
somoni
Currency code:
TJS
Exchange rates:
Tajikistani somoni per US dollar - 3.0614 (2003), 2.7641 (2002),
2.3722 (2001), 2.0763 (2000), 1.2378 (1999)
note: the new unit of exchange was introduced on 30 October 2000,
with one somoni equal to 1,000 of the old Tajikistani rubles
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Tajikistan
Telephones - main lines in use:
242,100 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
47,600 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: poorly developed and not well maintained; many
towns are not reached by the national network
domestic: cable and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 992; linked by cable and microwave
radio relay to other CIS republics and by leased connections to the
Moscow international gateway switch; Dushanbe linked by Intelsat to
international gateway switch in Ankara (Turkey); satellite earth
stations - 1 Orbita and 2 Intelsat