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

- consumption:

      289,400 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      46,300 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      313,500 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      50 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      1.848 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      8.436 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      2.767 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      9.658 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      16.14 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

      Current account balance:

      $12.03 billion (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $162.1 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs

      Exports - partners:

      Germany 29.8%, Italy 8.8%, US 4.9%, Switzerland 4.3% (2007)

      Imports:

      $160.3 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal goods, oil and oil products; foodstuffs

      Imports - partners:

      Germany 45.5%, Italy 7.1%, Switzerland 5%, Netherlands 4.3% (2007)

      Economic aid - donor:

      ODA, $1.498 billion (2006)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $18.22 billion (2006 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $752.5 billion (30 June 2007)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $222.9 billion (2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $208.1 billion (2007 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $126.3 billion (2005)

      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

       Austria

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      3.374 million (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      9.768 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: highly developed and efficient domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership eclipsing it by the late 1990s; the fiber-optic net is very extensive; all telephone applications and Internet services are available international: country code - 43; satellite earth stations - 15; in addition, there are about 600 VSATs (very small aperture terminals) (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 2, FM 65 (plus several hundred repeaters), shortwave 1 (2001)

      Radios:

      6.08 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      10 (plus more than 1,000 repeaters) (2001)

      Televisions:

      4.25 million (1997)

      Internet country code:

      .at

      Internet hosts:

      2.806 million (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      37 (2000)

      Internet users:

      4.277 million (2007)

      Transportation

       Austria

      Airports:

      55 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 25 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 15 (2007)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

      total: 30 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 26 (2007)

      Heliports:

      1 (2007)

      Pipelines:

      gas 2,722 km; oil 663 km; refined products 157 km (2007)

      Railways:

      total: 6,383 km standard gauge: 5,924 km 1.435-m gauge (3,772 km electrified) narrow gauge: 371 km 1.000-m gauge; 88 km 0.760-m gauge (25 km electrified) (2006)

      Roadways:

      total: 107,262 km paved: 107,262 km (includes 1,677 km of expressways) (2006)

      Waterways:

      358 km (2007)

      Merchant marine:

      total: 4 by type: cargo 2, container 2 foreign-owned: 2 (Netherlands 2) registered in other countries: 4 (Cyprus 1, Malta 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2) (2008)

      Ports and terminals:

      Enns, Krems, Linz, Vienna

      Military

       Austria

      Military branches:

      Land Forces (KdoLdSK), Air Forces (KdoLuSK)

      Military service age and obligation:

      18–35 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for male or female voluntary service; service obligation 7 months of training, followed by an 8-year reserve obligation (2006)

      Manpower available for military service:

      males age 16–49: 1,986,411 females age 16–49: 1,944,834 (2008 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

      males age 16–49: 1,617,385 females age 16–49: 1,583,886 (2008 est.)

      Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

      male: 50,869 female: 48,246 (2008 est.)

      Military expenditures:

      0.9% of GDP (2005 est.)

      Transnational Issues

       Austria

      Disputes - international:

      while threats of international legal action never materialized in 2007, 915,220 Austrians, with the support of the newly elected Freedom Party, signed a petition in January 2008, demanding that Austria block the Czech Republic's accession to the