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Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 8.5% hydro: 91.5% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001) Electricity - consumption: 1.96 billion kWh (2006) Electricity - exports: 101 million kWh (2006) Electricity - imports: 266 million kWh (2006) Oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2005 est.) Oil - consumption: 11,550 bbl/day (2006 est.) Oil - exports: 0 bbl/day (2004) Oil - imports: 11,530 bbl/day (2006 est.) Oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.) Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2005 est.) Natural gas - consumption: 0 cu m (2005 est.) Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2005 est.) Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m (2005) Natural gas - proved reserves: 0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.) Exports: $830 million f.o.b.; note - does not include unrecorded border trade with India (2006) Exports - commodities: carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain Exports - partners: India 67.9%, US 11.7%, Germany 4.7% (2006) Imports: $2.398 billion f.o.b. (2006) Imports - commodities: gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer Imports - partners: India 61.8%, China 3.8%, Indonesia 3.3% (2006) Economic aid - recipient: $427.9 million (2005) Debt - external: $3.07 billion (March 2006) Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $NA Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $NA Market value of publicly traded shares: $963.5 million (2005) Currency (code): Nepalese rupee (NPR) Currency code: NPR Exchange rates: Nepalese rupees per US dollar - NA (2007), 72.446 (2006), 72.16 (2005), 73.674 (2004), 76.141 (2003) Fiscal year: 16 July - 15 July Communications Nepal Telephones - main lines in use: 595,800 (2006) Telephones - mobile cellular: 1.042 million (2006) Telephone system: general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile-cellular telephone network domestic: NA international: country code - 977; radiotelephone communications; microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (2000) Radios: 840,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998) Televisions: 130,000 (1997) Internet country code: .np Internet hosts: 18,733 (2007) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (2000) Internet users: 249,400 (2006) Transportation Nepal Airports: 47 (2007) Airports - with paved runways: total: 10 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 8 under 914 m: 1 (2007) Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 37 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 6 under 914 m: 30 (2007) Railways: total: 59 km narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2006) Roadways: total: 17,380 km paved: 9,886 km unpaved: 7,494 km (2004) Military Nepal Military branches: Nepalese Army, Armed Police Force (2008) Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary military service; 15 years of age for military training; no conscription (2008) Manpower available for military service: males age 18-49: 6,107,091 females age 18-49: 5,744,989 (2005 est.) Manpower fit for military service: males age 18-49: 4.193 million females age 18-49: 3,853,102 (2005 est.) Manpower reaching military service age annually: males age 18-49: 308,031 females age 18-49: 286,604 (2005 est.) Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.6% (2006) Transnational Issues Nepal Disputes - international: joint border commission continues to work on contested sections of boundary with India, including the 400 square kilometer dispute over the source of the Kalapani River; India has instituted a stricter border regime to restrict transit of Maoist insurgents and illegal cross-border activities; approximately 106,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in refugee camps in southeastern Nepal since 1990 Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 106,248 (Bhutan), 20,153 (Tibet/China) IDPs: 100,000-200,000 (ongoing conflict between government forces and Maoist rebels; displacement spread across the country) (2006) Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and hashish for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT HERE View/Share this post only

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