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Exchange rates:
Malagasy ariary (MGA) per US dollar - 1,654.78 (2008 est.), 1,880 (2007), 2,161.4 (2006), 2,003 (2005), 1,868.9 (2004)
Communications ::Madagascar
Telephones - main lines in use:
164,900 (2008) country comparison to the world: 130
Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.835 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 88
Telephone system:
general assessment: system is above average for the region; Antananarivo's main telephone exchange modernized in the late 1990s, but the rest of the analogue-based telephone system is poorly developed; have added new fixed lines since 2005