errous
metals

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: 41.575 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 51.17%
hydro: 6.1%
nuclear: 42.73%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 41.08 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 2.045 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 1.55 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: grain, oilseed, vegetables, fruits,
tobacco; livestock

Exports: $4.5 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: machinery and equipment; metals, minerals,
and fuels; chemicals and plastics; food, textiles (1997)

Exports--partners: Italy 12%, Germany 10%, Turkey, Greece, Russia
(1997)

Imports: $4.6 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: fuels, minerals, and raw materials;
machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics;
food, textiles (1997)

Imports--partners: Russia 28%, Germany 11%, Italy, Greece, US
(1997)

Debt--external: $9.3 billion (1998 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 lev (Lv) = 100 stotinki

Exchange rates: leva (Lv) per US$1--1,685.10 (January 1999),
1,760.36 (1998), 1,681.88 (1997), 177.89 (1996), 67.17 (1995), 54.13
(1994)
note: the official rate is pegged to the euro as of 1 January 1999

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 2,773,293 (1993 est.)

Telephone system: almost two-thirds of the lines are residential
domestic: extensive but antiquated transmission system of coaxial
cable and microwave radio relay; telephone service is available in
most villages
international: direct dialing to 36 countries; satellite earth
stations--1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region); Intelsat available
through a Greek earth station

Radio broadcast stations: AM 24, FM 93, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 33 (in addition, there are two
relays of Russian program OK-1 and two relays of TV-5 Europe) (1997)

Televisions: 2.1 million (May 1990 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 4,292 km
standard gauge: 4,047 km 1.435-m gauge (2,650 km electrified; 917 km
double track)
narrow gauge: 245 km 0.760-m gauge (1995)

Highways:
total: 36,724 km
paved: 33,786 km (including 314 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,938 km (1997 est.)

Waterways: 470 km (1987)

Pipelines: crude oil 193 km; petroleum products 525 km; natural
gas 1,400 km (1992)

Port