d and service
sector growth slows.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $76.5 billion (1994
est.)

National product real growth rate: 2.2% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $7,350 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.2% (1994 est.)

Unemployment rate: 3.2% (1994 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $14 billion
expenditures: $13.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1994 est.)

Exports: $13.4 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment,
chemicals, fuels, minerals, metals, agricultural products
(January-November 1994)
partners: Germany 28.7%, Slovakia 15.5%, Austria 7.9%, Italy 6.4%,
France 3.2%, Russia 3.2%, Poland 3.1%, UK 2.9%, Netherlands 2.4%,
Hungary 2.2%, US 2.1%, Belgium 1.3% (January-June 1994)

Imports: $13.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods,
chemicals, fuels and lubricants, raw materials, agricultural products
(January-November 1994)
partners: Germany 24.1%, Slovakia 15.6%, Russia 9.8%, Austria 7.6%,
Italy 4.9%, France 3.6%, US 3.2%, Netherlands 2.9%, UK 2.8%, Poland
2.7%, Switzerland 2.2%, Belgium 2.0% (January-June 1994)

External debt: $8.7 billion (October 1994)

Industrial production: growth rate 4.9% (January-September 1994)

Electricity:
capacity: 14.470,000 kW
production: 56.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,842 kWh (1993)

Industries: fuels, ferrous metallurgy, machinery and equipment, coal,
motor vehicles, glass, 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 and
Latin American cocaine to Western Europe

Economic aid:
donor: 1.4 million annually to IMF beginning in 1994

Currency: 1 koruna (Kc) = 100 haleru

Exchange rates: koruny (Kcs) per US$1 - 27.762 (January 1995), 28.785
(1994), 29.153 (1993), 28.26 (1992), 29.53 (1991), 17.95 (1990)
note: values before 1993 reflect Czechoslovak exchange rates

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Czech Republic:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 9,434 km (include 1.520-m broad, 1.435-m standard, and several
narrow gauges) (1988)

Highways:
total: 55,890 km (1988)
paved: NA
unpaved: NA

Inland wa