share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.4% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
17.5% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.198 billion
expenditures: $1.245 billion, including capital expenditures of $114
million (2004 est.)

Public debt:
20% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wheat, grapes, rice, tobacco, corn, millet, cotton, sesame,
mulberry leaves, citrus, vegetables; beef, pork, poultry, mutton

Industries:
coal, metallic chromium, lead, zinc, ferronickel, textiles, wood
products, tobacco, food processing, buses, steel

Industrial production growth rate:
0% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
6.273 billion kWh (2003)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 83.7%
hydro: 16.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
7.216 billion kWh (2003)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2003)

Electricity - imports:
953 million kWh (2003)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - consumption:
22,000 bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$-311 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$1.629 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
food, beverages, tobacco; miscellaneous manufactures, iron and steel

Exports - partners:
Serbia and Montenegro 31.4%, Germany 19.9%, Greece 8.9%, Croatia
6.9%, US 4.9% (2004)

Imports:
$2.677 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; food products,
automobiles

Imports - partners:
Greece 15.4%, Germany 13.1%, Serbia and Montenegro 10.4%, Slovenia
8.6%, Bulgaria 8.1%, Turkey 6%, Romania 4.7% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$928 million (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$1.863 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$250 million (2003 est.)

Currency (code):
Macedonian denar (MKD)

Currency code:
MKD

Exchange rates:
Macedonian denars per US dollar - 49.41 (2004), 54.32 (2003), 64.35
(2002), 68.04 (2001), 65.9 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Macedonia

Telephones - main lines in use:
560,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
830,000 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: NA
international: country code - 389

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 29, FM 20, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:
410,000 (