commodities:
machinery and transport equipment; fuels and lubricants; manufactured
goods; raw materials; chemicals; agricultural products
partners:
Czech Republic, CIS republics, Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland,
Hungary, UK, Italy
External debt:
$3.2 billion hard currency indebtedness (31 December 1993)
Industrial production:
growth rate -13.5% (December 1993 over December 1992)
Electricity:
capacity:
6,800,000 kW
production:
24 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
4,550 kWh (1992)
Industries:
brown coal mining, chemicals, metal-working, consumer appliances,
fertilizer, plastics, armaments
Agriculture:
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
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin bound for Western
Europe
Economic aid:
donor:
the former Czechoslovakia was a donor - $4.2 billion in bilateral aid
to non-Communist less developed countries (1954-89)
Currency:
1 koruna (Sk) = 100 halierov
Exchange rates:
koruny (Sk) per US$1 - 32.9 (December 1993), 28.59 (December 1992),
28.26 (1992), 29.53 (1991), 17.95 (1990), 15.05 (1989); note - values
before 1993 reflect Czechoslovak exchange rate
Fiscal year:
calendar year

@Slovakia, Communications

Railroads:
3,669 km total (1990)
Highways:
total:
17,650 km (1990)
paved:
NA
unpaved:
NA
Inland waterways:
NA km
Pipelines:
petroleum products NA km; natural gas 2,700 km
Ports:
maritime outlets are in Poland (Gdynia, Gdansk, Szczecin), Croatia
(Rijeka), Slovenia (Koper), Germany (Hamburg, Rostock); principal
river ports are Komarno on the Danube and Bratislava on the Danube
Merchant marine:
total 19 (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 309,502 GRT/521,997 DWT, bulk
13, cargo 6
note:
most under the flag of Saint Vincent
Airports:
total:
46
usable:
32
with permanent-surface runways:
7
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
6
with runways 1,060-2,439 m:
18
note:
a C-130 can land on a 1,060-m airstrip
Telecommunications:
NA

@Slovakia, Defense Forces

Branches:
Army, Air and Air Defense Forces, Civil Defense, Railroad Units
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49 1,426,290; fit for military service 1,095,604; reach
military age (18) annually 48,695 (1994 est.)
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