Debt - external:
$6.044 billion (2003)
Economic aid - recipient:
$2.3 billion (2003-07 disbursements)
Currency:
Yemeni rial (YER)
Currency code:
YER
Exchange rates:
Yemeni rials per US dollar - NA (2003), 175.625 (2002), 168.672
(2001), 161.718 (2000), 155.718 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Yemen
Telephones - main lines in use:
542,200 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
411,100 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been
made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay,
cable, tropospheric scatter, and GSM cellular mobile telephone
systems
international: country code - 967; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik
(Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia and Djibouti