nergy 11.0%, raw materials and semi-finished
goods 36.9%, capital goods 23.3%, consumer goods 22.0%, food and
agriculture 6.8% (1994)
partners: Germany 23.4%, Austria 12.0%, Russia 12.0%, Italy 7.0%, UK
4.0% (1994)

External debt: $32.7 billion (October 1995)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $136 million (1993)
note: assistance received from OECD countries and international
organizations, $3,700 million (1990-93)

Currency: 1 forint (Ft) = 100 filler

Exchange rates: forints per US$1 - 144 (January 1996), 125.681
(1995),105.160 (1994), 91.933 (1993), 78.988 (1992), 74.735 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 7,685 km
broad gauge: 35 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 7,474 km 1.435-m gauge (2,162 km electrified; 1,236
km double track)
narrow gauge: 176 km mostly 0.760-m gauge (1995)
note: Hungry and Austria jointly manage the cross-border
standard-gauge railway between Gyor, Sopron, Ebenfurti, and Vasut, a
distance of about 100 km

Highways:
total: 158,711 km
paved: 69,992 km (including 441 km of expressways)
unpaved: 88,719 km (1992 est.)

Waterways: 1,622 km (1988)

Pipelines: crude oil 1,204 km; natural gas 4,387 km (1991)

Ports: Budapest, Dunaujvaros

Merchant marine:
total: 10 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 46,121 GRT/61,613
DWT (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 78
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 2
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 7
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 4
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 7
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 9
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 14
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 34 (1994 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 1.52 million (1993 est.)

Telephone system: 14,213 telex lines; automatic telephone network
based on microwave radio relay system; 608,000 telephones on order;
12-15 year wait for a telephone; 49% of all telephones are in
Budapest (1991 est.); note - the former state-owned
telecommunications firm MATAV - now privatized and managed by a
US/German consortium - has ambitious plans to upgrade the inadequate
system, including a contract with the German firm Siemens and the
Swedish firm Ericsson to provide 600,000 new phone lines during
1996-98
domestic: microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat a