abricated
metal, electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum,
paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles,
shipbuilding, petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages
Industrial production growth rate: 0.9% (1995 est.)
Electricity:
capacity: 3,630,000 kW
production: 11.234 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,000 kWh (1993 est.)
Agriculture: wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, alfalfa,
clover, olives, citrus, grapes, vegetables; livestock breeding,
dairy farming
Illicit drugs: transit point for Southwest Asian heroin to Western
Europe
Exports: $4.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment 13.6%, miscellaneous
manufactures 27.6%, chemicals 14.2%, food and live animals 12.2%,
raw materials 6.1%, fuels and lubricants 9.4%, beverages and tobacco
2.7% (1993)
partners: Germany 22.9%, Italy 21.2%, Slovenia 18.3% (1993)
Imports: $5.2 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment 23.1%, fuels and
lubricants 8.8%, food and live animals 9.0%, chemicals 14.2%,
miscellaneous manufactured articles 16.0%, raw materials 3.5%,
beverages and tobacco 1.4% (1993)
partners: Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Iran
External debt: $3.15 billion (September 1995)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
note: IMF has given Croatia $192 million; World Bank has given
Croatia $100 million
Currency: 1 Croatian kuna (HRK) = 100 paras
Exchange rates: Croatian kuna per US$1 - 5.405 (January 1996),
5.230 (1995), 5.996 (1994), 3.577 (1993)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Transportation
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Railways:
total: 2,699 km
standard gauge: 2,699 km 1.435-m gauge (1213 km electrified)
note: disrupted by territorial dispute with Serbia (1994)
Highways:
total: 27,378 km
paved: 22,176 km (including 302 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,202 km (1991 est.)
Waterways: 785 km perennially navigable
Pipelines: crude oil 670 km; petroleum products 20 km; natural gas
310 km (1992); note - under repair following territorial dispute
Ports: Dubrovnik, Omisalj, Ploce, Pula, Rijeka, Sibenik, Split,
Zadar
Merchant marine:
total: 39 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 203,495 GRT/252,818 DWT
ships by type: bulk 2, cargo 23, chemical tanker 1, container 3, oil
tanker 1, passenger 2, refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo
2, short-sea passenger 4
note: Croatia owns an addi
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