The 2005 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

expenditures: $15.65 billion, including capital expenditures of NA

       (2004 est.)

      Public debt:

       41.7% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Agriculture - products:

       wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, barley, alfalfa, clover,

       olives, citrus, grapes, soybeans, potatoes; livestock, dairy products

      Industries:

       chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal,

       electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper,

       wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding,

       petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages; tourism

      Industrial production growth rate:

       2.7% (2004 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       12.51 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 33.6% hydro: 66% nuclear: 0% other: 0.4% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       15.2 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       406 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       3.966 billion kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       21,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       89,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Oil - proved reserves:

       93.6 million bbl (1 January 2002)

      Natural gas - production:

       1.76 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

       2.84 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

       0 cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

       1.08 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

       34.36 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

      Current account balance:

       $-1.925 billion (2004 est.)

      Exports:

       $7.845 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels

      Exports - partners:

       Italy 23%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.4%, Germany 11.4%, Austria

       9.6%, Slovenia 7.6% (2004)

      Imports:

       $16.7 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery, transport and electrical equipment, chemicals, fuels and

       lubricants, foodstuffs

      Imports - partners:

       Italy 17.1%, Germany 15.5%, Russia 7.3%, Slovenia 7.1%, Austria

       6.9%, France 4.4% (2004)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

       $8.563 billion (2004 est.)

      Debt - external:

       $26.4 billion (2004 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       ODA $166.5 million (2002)

      Currency (code):

       kuna (HRK)

      Currency code:

       HRK

      Exchange rates:

       kuna per US dollar - 6.0358 (2004), 6.7035 (2003), 7.8687 (2002),

       8.34 (2001), 8.2766 (2000)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Croatia

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       1.825 million (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       2.553 million (2003)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: NA

       domestic: reconstruction plan calls for replacement of all analog

       circuits with digital and enlarging the network; a backup will be

       included in the plan for the main trunk

       international: country code - 385; digital international service is

       provided through the main switch in Zagreb; Croatia participates in

       the Trans-Asia-Europe (TEL) fiber-optic project, which consists of

       two fiber-optic trunk connections with Slovenia and a fiber-optic

       trunk line from Rijeka to Split and Dubrovnik; Croatia is also

       investing in ADRIA 1, a joint fiber-optic project with Germany,

       Albania, and Greece (2000)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 16, FM 98, shortwave 5 (1999)

      Radios:

       1.51 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       36 (plus 321 repeaters) (September 1995)

      Televisions:

       1.22 million (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .hr

      Internet hosts:

       29,644 (2004)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       9 (2000)

      Internet users:

       1.014 million (2003)

      Transportation Croatia

      Railways: total: 2,726 km standard gauge: 2,726 km 1.435-m gauge (984 km electrified) (2004)

      Highways:

       total: 28,344 km

       paved: 23,979 km (including 455 km of expressways)

       unpaved: 4,365 km (2002)

      Waterways:

       785 km (2004)

      Pipelines:

       gas 1,340 km; oil 583 km (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

       Omisalj, Ploce, Rijeka, Sibenik, Vukovar (on Danube)

      Merchant marine:

       total: 73 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 750,579 GRT/1,178,786 DWT

       by type: bulk carrier 25, cargo 12, chemical tanker 2,

       passenger/cargo 25, petroleum tanker 4, refrigerated cargo 1, roll

       on/roll off 4

       foreign-owned: 1 (Denmark 1)

       registered in other countries: 31 (2005)

      Airports:

       68 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 23 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 9 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with