The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.3% highest 10%: 22.4% (1996)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

       25.4 (1996)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       0.6% (2002 est.)

      Labor force:

       5.203 million (1999 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 5%, industry 35%, services 60% (2001 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       9.8% (2002)

      Budget:

       revenues: $16.7 billion

       expenditures: $18 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA

       (2001 est.)

      Industries:

       metallurgy, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, glass,

       armaments

      Industrial production growth rate:

       3.5% (2002)

      Electricity - production:

       70.04 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 76.1% hydro: 2.9% other: 1% (2001) nuclear: 20%

      Electricity - consumption:

       55.6 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       18.92 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       9.38 billion kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       7,419 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       175,700 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       26,670 bbl/day (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       192,300 bbl/day (2001)

      Oil - proved reserves:

       17.25 million bbl (37257)

      Natural gas - production:

       160 million cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

       9.892 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

       1 million cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

       9.521 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

       3.057 billion cu m (37257)

      Agriculture - products:

       wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, poultry

      Exports:

       $40.8 billion f.o.b. (2002)

      Exports - commodities:

       machinery and transport equipment 44%, intermediate manufactures

       25%, chemicals 7%, raw materials and fuel 7% (2000)

      Exports - partners:

       Germany 40.2%, Slovakia 7.1%, Austria 5.8%, UK 5.1%, Poland 5%,

       France 4% (2002)

      Imports:

       $43.2 billion f.o.b. (2002)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery and transport equipment 40%, intermediate manufactures

       21%, raw materials and fuels 13%, chemicals 11% (2000)

      Imports - partners:

       Germany 39.1%, Slovakia 6%, Austria 5.6%, Italy 5.4%, France 5.3%,

       Poland 4.1%, UK 4.1%, Russia 4% (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $23.8 billion (2002)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $108 million; EU structural adjustment funds (2002)

      Currency:

       Czech koruna (CZK)

      Currency code:

       CZK

      Exchange rates:

       koruny per US dollar - 32.74 (2002), 38.04 (2001), 38.6 (2000),

       34.57 (1999), 32.28 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Czech Republic

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       3.869 million (2000)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       4.346 million (2000)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: privatization and modernization of the Czech

       telecommunication system got a late start but is advancing steadily;

       growth in the use of mobile cellular telephones is particularly

       vigorous

       domestic: 86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber

       systems now being enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

       (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals;

       trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay

       international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intersputnik (Atlantic

       and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1

       Globalstar

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000)

      Radios:

       3,159,134 (December 2000)

      Television broadcast stations:

       150 (plus 1,434 repeaters) (2000)

      Televisions:

       3,405,834 (December 2000)

      Internet country code:

       .cz

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       more than 300 (2000)

      Internet users:

       2.69 million (2001)

      Transportation Czech Republic

      Railways:

       total: 9,462 km

       standard gauge: 9,363 km 1.435-m gauge (1,745 km electrified)

       narrow gauge: 99 km 0.760-m gauge (2002)

      Highways:

       total: 55,408 km

       paved: 55,408 km (including 499 km of expressways)

       unpaved: 0 km (2000)

      Waterways: 303 km note: the Labe (Elbe) is the principal river (2000)

      Pipelines:

       gas 7,020 km; oil 547 km; refined products 94 km (2003)

      Ports and harbors:

       Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem

      Airports:

       144 (2002)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 44 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7 1,524 to 2,437 m: 16 under 914 m: 19 (2002) 914 to 1,523 m: 2

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 100 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 36 under 914 m: 62 (2002)

      Heliports: 2 (2002)

      Military Czech Republic

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