oodstuffs

Imports - partners: Italy 17%, Germany 16.9%, Slovenia 7.9%, Russia 7.5%,
Austria 7% (2001 est.)

Debt - external: $11 billion (2001)

Economic aid - recipient: $NA

Currency: kuna (HRK)

Currency code: HRK

Exchange rates: kuna per US dollar - 8.452 (January 2002), 8.340 (2001),
8.277 (2000), 7.112 (1999), 6.362 (1998), 6.101 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Croatia

Telephones - main lines in use: 1,721,139 (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 1.3 million (2001)

Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: reconstruction plan
calls for replacement of all analog circuits with digital and enlarging
the network; a backup will be included in the plan for the main trunk
international: digital international service is provided through the main
switch in Zagreb; Croatia participates in the Trans-Asia-Europe (TEL)
fiber-optic project which consists of two fiber-optic trunk connections
with Slovenia and a fiber-optic trunk line from Rijeka to Split and
Dubrovnik; Croatia is also investing in ADRIA 1, a joint fiber-optic
project with Germany, Albania, and Greece (2000)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 16, FM 98, shortwave 5 (1999)

Radios: 1.51 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 36 (plus 321 repeaters) (September 1995)

Televisions: 1.22 million (1997)

Internet country code: .hr

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 9 (2000)

Internet users: 200,000 (2001)

Transportation Croatia

Railways: total: 2,726 km standard gauge: 2,726 km 1.435-m gauge (NA
electrified) (2000)

Highways: total: 28,009 km paved: 23,695 km (including 330 km of
expressways) unpaved: 4,314 km (2001)

Waterways: 785 km note: (perennially navigable; large sections of Sava
blocked by downed bridges, silt, and debris)

Pipelines: crude oil 670 km; petroleum products 20 km; natural gas 310 km
(1992)

Ports and harbors: Dubrovnik, Dugi Rat, Omisalj, Ploce, Pula, Rijeka,
Sibenik, Split, Vukovar (inland waterway port on Danube), Zadar

Merchant marine: total: 49 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 681,465
GRT/1,076,315 DWT note: includes a foreign-owned ship registered here
as a flag of convenience: Hong Kong 1 (2002 est.) ships by type:
bulk 14, cargo 13, chemical tanker 1, combination bulk 5, container 1,
multi-functional large-load carrier 3, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 2,
refrigerated cargo 2, roll on/roll off 4, short-sea passenger 3

Airports: 67 (2001)