The 2001 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

- production: 37.885 billion kWh (1999)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 88.4%

      hydro: 0.07%

      nuclear: 0%

      other: 11.53% (1999)

      Electricity - consumption: 32.916 billion kWh (1999)

      Electricity - exports: 7.28 billion kWh (1999)

      Electricity - imports: 4.963 billion kWh (1999)

      Agriculture - products: grain, potatoes, rape, sugar beets; pork and beef, dairy products; fish

      Exports: $50.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000)

      Exports - commodities: machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals, furniture, ships, windmills

      Exports - partners: EU 66.5% (Germany 20.1%, Sweden 11.7%, UK 9.6%,

       France 5.3%, Netherlands 4.7%), Norway 5.8%, US 5.4% (1999)

      Imports: $43.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000)

      Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods

      Imports - partners: EU 72.1% (Germany 21.6%, Sweden 12.4%, UK 8.0%,

       Netherlands 8.0%, France 5.8%), Norway 4.2%, US 4.5% (1999)

      Debt - external: $21.7 billion (2000)

      Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.63 billion (1999)

      Currency: Danish krone (DKK)

      Currency code: DKK

      Exchange rates: Danish kroner per US dollar - 7.951 (January 2001), 8.083 (2000), 6.976 (1999), 6.701 (1998), 6.604 (1997), 5.799 (1996); note - the Danes rejected the Euro in a 28 September 2000 referendum

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      Denmark Communications

      Telephones - main lines in use: 4.785 million (1997)

      Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,444,016 (1997)

      Telephone system: general assessment: excellent telephone and telegraph services

      domestic: buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network, 4 cellular mobile communications systems

      international: 18 submarine fiber-optic cables linking Denmark with Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Canada; satellite earth stations - 6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East); note - the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for worldwide Inmarsat access (1997)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998)

      Radios: 6.02 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations: 26 (plus 51 repeaters) (1998)

      Televisions: 3.121 million (1997)

      Internet country code: .dk

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 13 (2000)

      Internet users: 2.3 million (2000)

      Denmark Transportation

      Railways: total: 2,859 km (508 km privately owned and operated)

      standard gauge: 2,859 km 1.435-m gauge (600 km electrified; 760 km double track) (1998)

      Highways: total: 71,474 km

      paved: 71,474 km (including 880 km of expressways)

      unpaved: 0 km (1999)

      Waterways: 417 km

      Pipelines: crude oil 110 km; petroleum products 578 km; natural gas 700 km

      Ports and harbors: Abenra, Alborg, Arhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg,

       Fredericia, Kolding, Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle

      Merchant marine: total: 342 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 6,073,489 GRT/8,027,002 DWT

      ships by type: bulk 10, cargo 128, chemical tanker 27, container 76, liquefied gas 26, livestock carrier 6, petroleum tanker 22, railcar carrier 1, refrigerated cargo 13, roll on/roll off 23, short-sea passenger 7, specialized tanker 3

      note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Finland 1 (2000 est.)

      Airports: 119 (2000 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 28

      over 3,047 m: 2

      2,438 to 3,047 m: 7

      1,524 to 2,437 m: 4

      914 to 1,523 m: 12

      under 914 m: 3 (2000 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 91

      1,524 to 2,437 m: 1

      914 to 1,523 m: 7

      under 914 m: 83 (2000 est.)

      Denmark Military

      Military branches: Royal Danish Army, Royal Danish Navy, Royal

       Danish Air Force, Home Guard

      Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age

      Military manpower - availability: males age 15–49: 1,292,619 (2001 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15–49: 1,106,094 (2001 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 29,212 (2001 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: $2.47 billion (FY99)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.4% (FY99)

      Denmark Transnational Issues

      Disputes - international: Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Iceland and the UK (Ireland and the UK have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area); dispute with Iceland over the Faroe Islands fisheries median line boundary within 200 NM; disputes with Iceland, the UK, and Ireland over the Faroe Islands continental shelf boundary outside 200 NM

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      @Djibouti

      Djibouti Introduction

      Background: The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. A peace accord in 1994 ended a three-year uprising by Afars rebels.

      Djibouti Geography

      Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red

       Sea, between Eritrea and Somalia

      Geographic coordinates: 11 30 N, 43 00 E

      Map references: Africa

      Area: total: 22,000 sq km

      land: 21,980 sq km

      water: 20 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Massachusetts

      Land boundaries: total: 508 km

      border countries: Eritrea 113 km, Ethiopia 337 km, Somalia 58 km

      Coastline: 314 km

      Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NM

      exclusive economic zone: 200 NM

      territorial sea: 12 NM

      Climate: desert; torrid, dry

      Terrain: coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Lac Assal −155 m

      highest point: Moussa Ali 2,028 m