The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

bank prime lending rate:

      27.92% (31 December 2007)

      Stock of money:

      $186.7 million (31 December 2007)

      Stock of quasi money:

      $180.4 million (31 December 2007)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $169.9 million (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      rice, millet, sorghum, peanuts, corn, sesame, cassava (tapioca), palm kernels; cattle, sheep, goats

      Industries:

      processing peanuts, fish, and hides; tourism, beverages, agricultural machinery assembly, woodworking, metalworking, clothing

      Industrial production growth rate:

      −2.3% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      200.2 million kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      143.6 million kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      2,082 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      41.62 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      2,123 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

      Current account balance:

      -$71 million (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $88 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      peanut products, fish, cotton lint, palm kernels, re-exports

      Exports - partners:

      India 37.7%, China 17.5%, UK 8.7%, France 5.1%, Belgium 4.2% (2007)

      Imports:

      $271 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      foodstuffs, manufactures, fuel, machinery and transport equipment

      Imports - partners:

      China 23.7%, Senegal 11.5%, Cote d'Ivoire 8.3%, Brazil 8%,

       Netherlands 5.2% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $58.15 million (2005)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $142.8 million (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $628.8 million (2003 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $NA

      Currency (code):

      dalasi (GMD)

      Currency code:

      GMD

      Exchange rates:

      dalasis (GMD) per US dollar - 27.79 (2007), 28.066 (2006), 28.575 (2005), 30.03 (2004), 27.306 (2003)

      Communications

       Gambia, The

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      76,400 (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      795,900 (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: adequate; a packet switched data network is available; two mobile-cellular service providers domestic: adequate network of microwave radio relay and open-wire; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity reached 50 telephones per 100 persons in 2007 international: country code - 220; microwave radio relay links to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 3, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2001)

      Radios:

      196,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      1 (government-owned) (1997)

      Televisions:

      5,000 (2000)

      Internet country code:

      .gm

      Internet hosts:

      320 (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      2 (2001)

      Internet users:

      100,200 (2007)

      Transportation

       Gambia, The

      Airports:

      1 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 1 over 3,047 m: 1 (2007)

      Roadways:

      total: 3,742 km paved: 723 km unpaved: 3,019 km (2004)

      Waterways:

      390 km (on River Gambia; small ocean-going vessels can reach 190 km) (2006)

      Merchant marine:

      total: 5 by type: passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 1 (2008)

      Ports and terminals:

      Banjul

      Military

       Gambia, The

      Military branches:

      Office of the Chief of Defense: Gambian National Army (National

       Guard, GNA), Gambian Navy (GN) (2008)

      Military service age and obligation:

      18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)

      Manpower available for military service:

      males age 16–49: 379,668 females age 16–49: 384,438 (2008 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

      males age 16–49: 230,202 females age 16–49: 244,480 (2008 est.)

      Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

      male: