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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:

37,500 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

110,200 (2006)

Telephone system:

general assessment: NA domestic: good automatic telephone system international: country code - 1–268; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; satellite earth stations - 2; tropospheric scatter to Saba (Netherlands Antilles) and Guadeloupe (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 4, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:

36,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

2 (1997)

Televisions:

31,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ag

Internet hosts:

2,215 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

16 (2000)

Internet users:

60,000 (2007)

Transportation

Antigua and Barbuda

Airports:

3 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 1,165 km paved: 384 km unpaved: 781 km (2002)

Merchant marine:

total: 1,146 by type: barge carrier 2, bulk carrier 50, cargo 651, carrier 4, chemical tanker 5, container 392, liquefied gas 12, petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 9, roll on/roll off 20 foreign-owned: 1,113 (Australia 1, Colombia 2, Cyprus 18, Denmark 19, Estonia 23, France 1, Germany 941, Greece 3, Iceland 12, Italy 1, Latvia 13, Lithuania 5, Netherlands 20, NZ 2, Norway 8, Poland 2, Russia 4, Slovenia 6, Sweden 1, Switzerland 8, Turkey 6, UK 9, US 8) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Saint John's

Military

Antigua and Barbuda

Military branches:

Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force (2007)

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: 19,560 females age 16–49: 18,977 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16–49: 15,591 females age 16–49: 15,542 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 744 female: 742 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures: