Debt - external:
$311 million (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$77 million (1999)
Currency (code):
nakfa (ERN)
Currency code:
ERN
Exchange rates:
nakfa (ERN) per US dollar - 14.5 (2005), 13.788 (2004), 13.878
(2003), 13.958 (2002), 11.31 (2001)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Eritrea
Telephones - main lines in use:
37,700 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
40,400 (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate
domestic: inadequate; most telephones are in Asmara; government is
seeking international tenders to improve the system (2002)
international: country code - 291; note - international connections
exist