services 30.4%, industry 20.9%, commerce
15.0%, finance, insurance, and business services 10.2%, agriculture
and forestry 8.6%, transport and communications 7.7%, construction
7.2%
Unemployment rate: 17% (1995)
Budget:
revenues: $21.7 billion
expenditures: $31.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1993 est.)
Industries: metal products, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, copper
refining, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1993 est.)
Electricity:
capacity: 13,360,000 kW
production: 58 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 12,196 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: cereals, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; annual
fish catch about 160,000 metric tons
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Latin American cocaine for
the West European market
Exports: $29.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: paper and pulp, machinery, chemicals, metals, timber
partners: EU 46.5% (Germany 13.4%, UK 10.3%), Sweden 11%, US 7.2%,
Japan 2.1%, FSU 8.6% (1994)
Imports: $23.2 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products,
chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, textile
yarn and fabrics, fodder grains
partners: EU 44% (Germany 15%, UK 8.3%), Sweden 10.4%, US 7.6%,
Japan 6.5%, FSU 10.3 (1994)
External debt: $30 billion (December 1993)
Economic aid:
donor: ODA, $355 million (1993)
Currency: 1 markka (FMk) or Finmark = 100 pennia
Exchange rates: markkaa (FMk) per US$1 - 4.4425 (January 1996),
4.3667 (1995), 5.2235 (1994), 5.7123 (1993), 4.4794 (1992), 4.0440
(1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Transportation
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Railways:
total: 5,895 km
broad gauge: 5,895 km 1.524-m gauge (1,993 km electrified; 480 km
double- or more-track) (1995)
Highways:
total: 76,755 km
paved: 47,588 km (including 318 km of expressways)
unpaved: 29,167 km (1992 est.)
Waterways: 6,675 km total (including Saimaa Canal); 3,700 km
suitable for steamers
Pipelines: natural gas 580 km
Ports: Hamina, Helsinki, Kokkola, Kotka, Loviisa, Oulu, Pori,
Rauma, Turku, Uusikaupunki, Varkaus
Merchant marine:
total: 92 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,051,231 GRT/1,075,397
DWT
ships by type: bulk 8, cargo 20, chemical tanker 5, oil tanker 12,
passenger 2, refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 31,
short-sea passenger 12, vehicle carrier 1 (1995 est.
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