.3% per month (1994 average)

Unemployment rate: about 2% in 1994 (official estimate but large
number of underemployed workers)

Budget:
revenues: $643 million
expenditures: $639 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1993 est.)

Exports: $1.65 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: textile 14%, food products 11%, vehicles 11%, metals 11%
(1993)
partners: Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany

Imports: $1 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: machinery 18%, fuels 15%, vehicles 14%, textiles 10%
(1993)
partners: Finland, Russia, Germany, Sweden

External debt: $650 million (end of 1991)

Industrial production: growth rate -27% (1993)

Electricity:
capacity: 3,420,000 kW
production: 11.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 6,528 kWh (1993)

Industries: oil shale, shipbuilding, phosphates, electric motors,
excavators, cement, furniture, clothing, textiles, paper, shoes,
apparel

Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP; employs 20% of work force; very
efficient by Soviet standards; net exports of meat, fish, dairy
products, and potatoes; imports of feedgrains for livestock; fruits
and vegetables

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for illicit drugs from Central and
Southwest Asia and Latin America to Western Europe; very limited
illicit opium producer; mostly for domestic consumption

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (1992), $10 million

Currency: 1 Estonian kroon (EEK) = 100 cents (introduced in August
1992)

Exchange rates: kroons (EEK) per US$1 - 12.25 (January 1995); note -
kroons are tied to the German Deutschmark at a fixed rate of 8 to 1

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 1,030 km common carrier lines only; does not include dedicated
industrial lines
broad gauge: 1,030 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)

Highways:
total: 30,300 km
paved or graveled: 29,200 km
unpaved: earth 1,100 km (1990)

Inland waterways: 500 km perennially navigable

Pipelines: natural gas 420 km (1992)

Ports: Haapsalu, Narva, Novotallin, Paldiski, Parnu, Tallinn

Merchant marine:
total: 65 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 415,332 GRT/532,749 DWT
ships by type: bulk 6, cargo 44, container 2, oil tanker 2,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 7, short-sea passenger 4

Airports:
total: 22
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with unpav