revenues: $48.6 billion
expenditures: $53 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1994 est.)

Industries: petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding,
pulp and paper products, metals, chemicals, timber, mining,
textiles, fishing

Industrial production growth rate: 2.7% (1998 est.)

Electricity--production: 103.374 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.76%
hydro: 99.23%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.01% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 112.374 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 4.2 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 13.2 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: oats, other grains; beef, milk; fish

Exports: $39.8 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: petroleum and petroleum products 55%,
machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish (1997)

Exports--partners: EU 76% (UK 19%, Germany 10%, Netherlands 11%,
Sweden 9%, France 8%), US 6% (1997)

Imports: $37.1 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals,
foodstuffs

Imports--partners: EU 68% (Sweden 16%, Germany 14%, UK 9%, Denmark
7%, Netherlands 4%), US 6%, Japan 4%(1997)

Debt--external: none?Norway is a net external creditor

Economic aid--donor: ODA, $1.4 billion (1998)

Currency: 1 Norwegian krone (NKr) = 100 oere

Exchange rates: Norwegian kroner (NKr) per US$1--7.4524 (January
1999), 7.5451 (1998), 7.0734 (1997), 6.4498 (1996), 6.3352 (1995),
7.0576 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 2.39 million (1994 est.); 470,000 cellular telephone
subscribers (1994)

Telephone system: high-quality domestic and international
telephone, telegraph, and telex services
domestic: NA domestic satellite earth stations
international: 2 buried coaxial cable systems; 4 coaxial submarine
cables; satellite earth stations--NA Eutelsat, NA Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean), and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions);
note--Norway shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic
countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 46, FM 493 (350 private and 143
government), shortwave 0

Radios: 3.3 million (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 209 (1997)

Televisions: 1.5 million (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 4,012 km
standard gauge: 4,012 km 1.435-m gauge (2,422 km electrified; 96 km