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Industrial production growth rate: 0.8% (1996)

Electricity--production: 12.075 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 34.58%
hydro: 29.31%
nuclear: 36.11%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 11.295 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 2.03 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 1.25 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: potatoes, hops, wheat, sugar beets, corn,
grapes; cattle, sheep, poultry

Exports: $9.2 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: manufactured goods 45%, machinery and
transport equipment 30%, chemicals 10%, food 3% (1997)

Exports--partners: Germany 29%, Italy 15%, Croatia 10%, France,
Austria, US (1997)

Imports: $9.9 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery and transport equipment 31%,
manufactured goods 31%, chemicals 11%, fuels and lubricants, food
(1997)

Imports--partners: Germany 21%, Italy 17%, France 10%, Austria 8%,
Croatia 5%, Hungary, US (1997)

Debt--external: $4.4 billion (1998 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: ODA, $5 million (1993)

Currency: 1 tolar (SlT) = 100 stotins

Exchange rates: tolars (SlT) per US$1--162.50 (January 1999),
166.13 (1998), 159.69 (1997), 135.36 (1996), 118.52 (1995), 128.81
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 691,240 (1997 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: 70% digital; full digitalization scheduled by 2000
international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 0
note: there are more than 20 regional and local radio broadcast
stations

Radios: 596,100 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 23 (consisting of 20 network
stations and three private stations; there are also about 400
low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 454,400 (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 1,201 km
standard gauge: 1,201 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified 489 km) (1998)

Highways:
total: 14,830 km
paved: 12,309 km (including 251 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,521 km (1997 est.)

Waterways: NA

Pipelines: crude oil 290 km; natural gas 305 km

Ports and harbors: Izola, Koper, Piran

Airports: 14 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 6
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under