-1% (1993 est.)
National product per capita:
$5,500 (1993 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
23% (1993 est.)
Unemployment rate:
13% (1993)
Budget:
revenues:
$10.2 billion
expenditures:
$12.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1993 est.)
Exports:
$8.9 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities:
raw materials, semi-finished goods, chemicals 39.6%, machinery 14.5%,
consumer goods 22.3%, food and agriculture 20.0%, fuels and energy
3.6% (January-June 1993)
partners:
EC 49.8% (Germany 27.8%, Italy 9.5%), Austria 10.7%, the FSU 13.1%,
Eastern Europe 9.8% (1992)
Imports:
$12.5 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities:
fuels and energy 13.9%, raw materials, semi-finished goods, chemicals
35.9%, machinery 22.4%, consumer goods 21.8%, food and agriculture
6.0% (January-June 1993)
partners:
EC 42.8% (Germany 23.6%, Italy 6.3%), Austria 14.4%, the FSU 16.8%,
Eastern Europe 9.2%
External debt:
$24.7 billion (November 1993)
Industrial production:
growth rate 4% (1993 est.)
Electricity:
capacity:
7,200,000 kW
production:
30 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
3,000 kWh (1992)
Industries:
mining, metallurgy, construction materials, processed foods, textiles,
chemicals (especially pharmaceuticals), buses, automobiles
Agriculture:
including forestry, accounts for 15% of GDP and 16% of employment;
highly diversified crop and livestock farming; principal crops -
wheat, corn, sunflowers, potatoes, sugar beets; livestock - hogs,
cattle, poultry, dairy products; self-sufficient in food output
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southeast Asia heroin transiting the Balkan
route
Economic aid:
recipient:
assistance pledged by OECD countries since 1989 about $9 billion
Currency:
1 forint (Ft) = 100 filler
Exchange rates:
forints per US$1 - 93.46 (September 1993), 92.5 (1993), 78.99 (1992),
74.74 (1991), 63.21 (1990), 59.07 (1989)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

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Railroads:
7,765 km total; 7,508 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 222 km narrow
gauge (mostly 0.760-meter), 35 km 1.520-meter broad gauge; 1,236 km
double track, 2,249 km electrified; all government owned (1990)
Highways:
total:
130,224 km
paved:
61,948 km
unpaved:
68,276 km (1988)
Inland waterways:
1,622 km (1988)
Pipelines:
crude oil 1,204 km; natural gas 4,387 km (1991)
Ports:
Budapest and Dunaujvaros are river ports