nflation rate (consumer prices):
52% (1991 est.)
Unemployment rate:
officially 6.7% (1991 est.)
Budget:
revenues $4.5 billion; expenditures $4.5 billion, including capital
expenditures of $200 million (1992)
Exports:
$12.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990)
commodities:
machinery and equipment 39.2%; fuels, minerals, and metals 8.1%;
agricultural and forestry products 6.2%, other 46.5%
partners:
USSR, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, France, US, UK
Imports:
$13.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)
commodities:
machinery and equipment 37.3%; fuels, minerals, and metals 22.6%;
agricultural and forestry products 7.0%; other 33.1%
partners:
USSR, Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, UK, Italy
External debt:
$9.1 billion, hard currency indebtedness (December 1991)
Industrial production:
growth rate -22% (1991 est.); accounts for almost 60% of GNP
Electricity:
23,000,000 kW capacity; 90,000 million kWh produced, 5,740 kWh per capita
(1990)
Industries:
iron and steel, machinery and equipment, cement, sheet glass, motor
vehicles, armaments, chemicals, ceramics, wood, paper products, footwear
Agriculture:
accounts for 9% of GDP (includes forestry); largely self-sufficient in food
production; diversified crop and livestock production, including grains,
potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit, hogs, cattle, and poultry; exporter of
forest products

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Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and emerging as a
transshipment point for Latin American cocaine E
Economic aid:
donor - $4.2 billion in bilateral aid to non-Communist less developed
countries (1954-89)
Currency:
koruna (plural - koruny); 1 koruna (Kc) = 100 haleru
Exchange rates:
koruny (Kcs) per US$1 - 28.36 (January 1992), 29.53 (1991), 17.95 (1990),
15.05 (1989), 14.36 (1988), 13.69 (1987)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

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Railroads:
13,103 km total; 12,855 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 102 km 1.520-meter
broad gauge, 146 km 0.750- and 0.760-meter narrow gauge; 2,861 km double
track; 3,798 km electrified; government owned (1988)
Highways:
73,540 km total; including 517 km superhighway (1988)
Inland waterways:
475 km (1988); the Elbe (Labe) is the principal river
Pipelines:
crude oil 1,448 km; petroleum products