The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

debt:

      35.9% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      2.5% (2007 est.)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      5.62% (31 December 2007)

      Stock of money:

      NA note: see entry for the European Union for money supply in the Euro Area; the European Central Bank (ECB) controls monetary policy for the 15 members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); individual members of the EMU do not control the quantity of money and quasi money circulating within their own borders

      Stock of quasi money:

      NA

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $240.7 billion (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      barley, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; fish

      Industries:

      metals and metal products, electronics, machinery and scientific instruments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing

      Industrial production growth rate:

      8.1% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      77.02 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      86.04 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      2.86 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      15.42 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 39% hydro: 18.7% nuclear: 30.4% other: 11.8% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      8,951 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      228,200 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      126,300 bbl/day (January-September 2007 est.)

      Oil - imports:

      281,300 bbl/day (January-September 2007 est.)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      NA bbl

      Natural gas - production:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      4.581 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      4.576 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      0 cu m (1 January 2006)

      Current account balance:

      $11.4 billion (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $89.91 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals; timber, paper, pulp

      Exports - partners:

      Germany 10.9%, Sweden 10.7%, Russia 10.3%, US 6.4%, UK 5.8%,

       Netherlands 5.6% (2007)

      Imports:

      $78.05 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, textile yarn and fabrics, grains

      Imports - partners:

      Germany 15.8%, Russia 14%, Sweden 13.7%, Netherlands 6.8%, China 5.5%, UK 4.9% (2007)

      Economic aid - donor:

      ODA, $1.023 billion (2007)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $8.385 billion (2007)

      Debt - external:

      $271.2 billion (30 June 2007)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $85.24 billion (2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $113 billion (2007 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $1.095 trillion (January 2008)

      Currency (code):

      euro (EUR)

      Currency code:

      EUR

      Exchange rates:

      euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003)

      Communications

       Finland

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      1.74 million (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      6.08 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: modern system with excellent service domestic: digital fiber-optic fixed-line network and an extensive cellular network provide domestic needs international: country code - 358; submarine cables provide links to Estonia and Sweden; satellite earth stations - access to Intelsat transmission service via a Swedish satellite earth station, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Finland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 2, FM 186, shortwave 1 (1998)

      Radios:

      7.7 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      120 (plus 431 repeaters) (1999); note - On 1 September 2007, Finland became one of the first countries in the world to broadcast all television signals digitally

      Televisions:

      3.2 million (1997)

      Internet country code:

      .fi; note - Aland Islands assigned .ax

      Internet hosts:

      3.877 million (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      3 (2002)

      Internet users:

      3.6 million (2007)

      Transportation

       Finland

      Airports:

      148 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 76 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 27 1,524 to 2,437 m: 10 914 to 1,523 m: 22 under 914 m: 15 (2007)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

      total: 72 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 68 (2007)

      Pipelines:

      gas 694 km (2007)

      Railways: