.)

Oil - exports:

57,920 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

499,200 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

96.38 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

6.025 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

16.38 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

45 million cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

10.12 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

164.8 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

-$15.91 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$144.6 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

machinery and transport equipment 37.8%, intermediate manufactured
goods 23.7%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 17.1%, food and live
animals 7.6% (2003)

Exports - partners:

Germany 25.9%, Italy 6.6%, France 6.1%, UK 5.9%, Czech Republic
5.5%, Russia 4.6% (2007)

Imports:

$160.2 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

machinery and transport equipment 38%, intermediate manufactured
goods 21%, chemicals 14.8%, minerals, fuels, lubricants, and related
materials 9.1% (2003)

Imports - partners:

Germany 29%, Russia 8.7%, Italy 6.6%, Netherlands 5.7%, France 5.1%,
China 4.2% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$1.524 billion in available EU structural adjustment and cohesion
funds (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$65.75 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$169.8 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$143 billion (2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$19.69 billion (2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$149.1 billion (2006)

Currency (code):

zloty (PLN)

Currency code:

PLN

Exchange rates:

zlotych (PLN) per US dollar - 2.81 (2007), 3.1032 (2006), 3.2355
(2005), 3.6576 (2004), 3.8891 (2003)
note: zlotych is the plural form of zloty

Communications
Poland

Telephones - main lines in use:

10.336 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

41.389 million (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: modernization of the telecommunications network
has accelerated with market based competition finalized in 2003;
fixed-line service, dominated by the former state-owned company, is
dwarfed by the growth in wireless telephony
domestic: mobile-cellular service available since 1993 and provided
by three nat