stment (gross fixed):
29% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $39.31 billion
expenditures: $45.8 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
33.5% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, poultry

Industries:
metallurgy, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, glass,
armaments

Industrial production growth rate:
4.7% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
71.75 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 76.1%
hydro: 2.9%
nuclear: 20%
other: 1% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
55.33 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
20.9 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
9.5 billion kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
7,419 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
175,700 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
26,670 bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
192,300 bbl/day (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
17.25 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
160 million cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
9.892 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
1 million cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
9.521 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.057 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$-5.73 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$66.51 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 52%, chemicals 5%, raw materials
and fuel 9% (2003)

Exports - partners:
Germany 36.1%, Slovakia 8.4%, Austria 6%, Poland 5.3%, UK 4.7%,
France 4.7%, Italy 4.3%, Netherlands 4.3% (2004)

Imports:
$68.19 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 46%, raw materials and fuels 15%,
chemicals 10% (2003)

Imports - partners:
Germany 31.7%, Slovakia 5.4%, Italy 5.3%, China 5.2%, Poland 4.8%,
France 4.8%, Russia 4.1% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$32.78 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$36.28 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$2.4 billion in available EU structural adjustment and cohesion
funds (2004-06)

Currency (code):
Czech koruna (CZK)

Currency code:
CZK

Exchange rates:
koruny per US dollar - 25.7 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 32.739 (2002),
38.035 (2001), 38.598 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

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