roduction by source:
fossil fuel: 35.57%
hydro: 20.81%
nuclear: 43.62%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 26.353 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 2.607 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 3.15 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit;
pigs, cattle, poultry; forest products

Exports: $10.7 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: machinery and transport equipment 37%;
intermediate manufactured goods 30%, miscellaneous manufactured
goods 13%; chemicals 9%; raw materials 4% (1998)

Exports--partners: EU 56% (Germany 29%), Czech Republic 20%,
Austria 7%, Poland 7% (1998)

Imports: $12.9 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery and transport equipment 40%;
intermediate manufactured goods 18%; fuels 11%; chemicals 11%;
miscellaneous manufactured goods 10% (1998)

Imports--partners: EU 50% (Germany 26%), Czech Republic 18%,
Russia 10%, Italy 6% (1998)

Debt--external: $10.7 billion (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $421.9 million (1995)

Currency: 1 koruna (Sk) = 100 halierov

Exchange rates: koruny (Sk) per US$1--36.207 (January 1999),
35.233 (1998). 33.616 (1997), 30.654 (1996), 29.713 (1995), 32.045
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 1,362,178 (1992 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA; note--there
are 22 private broadcast stations and two public (state) broadcast
stations

Radios: 915,000 (1995 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 41 (1997)

Televisions: 1.2 million (1995 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 3,660 km
broad gauge: 102 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge: 3,507 km 1.435-m gauge (1424 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 51 km (46 km 1,000-m gauge; 5 km 0.750-m gauge) (1996)

Highways:
total: 38,000 km
paved: 37,500 km (including 280 km of expressways)
unpaved: 500 km (1998 est.)

Waterways: 172 km on the Danube

Pipelines: petroleum products NA km; natural gas 2,700 km

Ports and harbors: Bratislava, Komarno

Merchant marine:
total: 3 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 15,041 GRT/19,517
DWT (1998 est.)

Airports: 15 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 10
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unp