bank discount rate:
NA%
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
8% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 129 7% (31 December 2006)
Stock of narrow money:
$4.764 billion (31 December 2010 est) country comparison to the world: 91 $4.972 billion (31 December 2009 est)
Stock of broad money:
$8.248 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 107 $8.641 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$8.661 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 97 $9.292 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Agriculture - products:
cereals, pulses, coffee, oilseed, cotton, sugarcane, potatoes, qat, cut flowers; hides, cattle, sheep, goats; fish
Industries:
food processing, beverages, textiles, leather, chemicals, metals processing, cement
Industrial production growth rate:
9.5% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 18
Electricity - production:
3.46 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 121
Electricity - consumption:
3.13 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 126
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 177
Oil - consumption:
38,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 106
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 197
Oil - imports:
33,590 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 96
Oil - proved reserves:
430,000 bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 98
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 198
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 187
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 59
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 182
Natural gas - proved reserves:
24.92 billion cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 74
Current account balance:
-$2.232 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 158 -$1.996 billion (2009 est.)
Exports:
$1.729 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 134 $1.636 billion (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, qat, gold, leather products, live animals, oilseeds
Exports - partners:
China 10.87%, Germany 9.75%, Saudi Arabia 7.39%, US 7.21%,
Netherlands 6.38%, Switzerland 5.33%, Sudan 4.35%, Belgium 4% (2009)
Imports:
$7.517 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 101 $6.946 billion (2009 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food and live animals, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery, motor vehicles, cereals, textiles
Imports - partners:
China 14.73%, Saudi Arabia 8.41%, India 7.65%, US 4.3% (2009)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.88 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 101 $1.781 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Debt - external:
$4.289 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 113 $3.621 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Exchange rates:
birr (ETB) per US dollar - 14.4 (2010), 11.7776 (2009), 9.57 (2008), 8.96 (2007), 8.69 (2006)
Communications ::Ethiopia
Telephones - main lines in use:
915,100 (2009) country comparison to the world: 82
Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.052 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 103
Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate telephone system with the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) maintaining a monopoly over telecommunication services; open-wire, microwave radio relay; radio communication in the HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies; 2 domestic satellites provide the national trunk service
domestic: the number of fixed lines and mobile telephones is increasing from a small base; combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity is only about 5 per 100 persons
international: country code - 251; open-wire to Sudan and Djibouti; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean) (2009)
Broadcast media:
1 public TV broadcast station broadcasting nationally and 1 public radio broadcaster with stations in each of the 13 administrative districts; a few commercial
