Debt - external:

$359.8 million (June 2006) country comparison to the world: 169

Exchange rates:

East Caribbean dollars (XCD) per US dollar - 2.7 (2007), 2.7 (2006), 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003)

note: fixed rate since 1976

Communications ::Antigua and Barbuda

Telephones - main lines in use:

38,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 171

Telephones - mobile cellular:

136,600 (2008) country comparison to the world: 177