billion cu m (2005 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

2.476 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

$NA

Exports:

$1.33 trillion; note - external exports, excluding intra-EU trade
(2005)

Exports - commodities:

machinery, motor vehicles, aircraft, plastics, pharmaceuticals and
other chemicals, fuels, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, wood pulp
and paper products, textiles, meat, dairy products, fish, alcoholic
beverages.

Exports - partners:

US 23.3%, Switzerland 7.6%, Russia 5.2%, China 4.8% (2006)

Imports:

$1.466 trillion; note - external imports, excluding intra-EU trade
(2005)

Imports - commodities:

machinery, vehicles, aircraft, plastics, crude oil, chemicals,
textiles, metals, foodstuffs, clothing

Imports - partners:

US 13.8%, China 13.4%, Russia 8.2%, Japan 6.2% (2006)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$NA

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$11.64 trillion (2006)

Currency (code):

euro, British pound, Bulgarian lev, Czech koruna, Danish krone,
Estonian kroon, Hungarian forint, Latvian lat, Lithuanian litas,
Polish zloty, Romanian leu, Slovak koruna, Swedish krona

Currency code:

EUR

Exchange rates:

euros per US dollar - 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005),
0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003)

Communications
European Union

Telephones - main lines in use:

238 million (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

466 million (2005)

Telephone system:

note - see individual country entries of member states

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 930, FM 13,655, shortwave 71 (1998); note - sum of individual
country radio broadcast stations; there is also a European-wide
station (Euroradio)

Television broadcast stations:

2,700 (1995); note - sum of individual country television broadcast
stations excluding repeaters; there is also a European-wide station
(Eurovision)

Internet country code:

.eu (effective 2005); note - see country entries of member states
for individual country codes

Internet hosts:

31,693 (2008); note - this sum reflects the number of internet hosts
assigned the .eu internet country code

Internet users:

247 million (2006)

Transportation
European Union

Airports:

3,393 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 1,991
over 3,047m: 110
2,438 to 3,047m: 347
1,524 to 2,437m: 545
914 to 1,523m: 420
under 914m: 569 (2007)