Debt - external:
$5.503 billion (2005 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$250 million (2000 est.)
Currency (code):
quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed
Currency code:
GTQ; USD
Exchange rates:
quetzales per US dollar - 7.6339 (2005), 7.9465 (2004), 7.9409
(2003), 7.8217 (2002), 7.8586 (2001)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Guatemala
Telephones - main lines in use:
1,132,100 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
3,168,300 (2004)
Telephone system:
general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of
Guatemala
domestic: NA
international: country code - 502; connected to Central American
Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean)