992)

Imports: $49.6 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals,
motor vehicles, foodstuffs, iron and steel, clothing
partners: EC 53.6% (Germany 17.9%, UK 6.3%, Denmark 7.5%, France
4.9%), EFTA (Norway 6.6%, Finland 6%), US 8.4%, Central and Eastern
Europe 3% (1992)

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate 9% (1994)

Electricity:
capacity: 34,560,000 kW
production: 141 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 14,891 kWh (1993)

Industries: iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and
telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed
foods, motor vehicles

Agriculture: animal husbandry predominates, with milk and dairy
products accounting for 37% of farm income; main crops - grains, sugar
beets, potatoes; 100% self-sufficient in grains and potatoes; Sweden
is about 50% self-sufficient in most products

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for narcotics shipped via the CIS
and Baltic states for the European market

Economic aid:
donor: ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $10.3 billion

Currency: 1 Swedish krona (SKr) = 100 oere

Exchange rates: Swedish kronor (SKr) per US$1 - 7.4675 (January 1995),
7.7160 (1994), 7.7834 (1993), 5.8238 (1992), 6.0475 (1991) 5.9188
(1990)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

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Railroads:
total: 12,000 km (includes 953 km of privately owned railways)
standard gauge: 10,742 km 1.435-m gauge (7,502 km electrified and
1,152 km double track); 8 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified; privately
owned)
narrow gauge: 61 km 0.891-m gauge (electrified; privately owned)
other: 1,189 km NA-m gauge (1994)

Highways:
total: 135,859 km
paved: 97,818 km (including 936 km of expressways)
unpaved: gravel 38,041 km (1991)

Inland waterways: 2,052 km navigable for small steamers and barges

Pipelines: natural gas 84 km

Ports: Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Hudiksvall, Kalmar,
Karlshamn, Malmo, Solvesborg, Stockholm, Sundsvall

Merchant marine:
total: 157 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,872,350 GRT/2,075,722
DWT
ships by type: bulk 10, cargo 24, chemical tanker 25, combination
ore/oil 1, container 2, oil tanker 31, railcar carrier 2, refrigerated
cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 37, short-sea passenger 8, specialized
tanker 4, vehicle carrier 12

Airports:
total: 253
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved ru