nsumer prices):
3% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
18.8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.113 billion
expenditures: $2.149 billion; including capital expenditures of $114
million (2006 est.)

Public debt:
27.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
grapes, wine, tobacco, vegetables; milk, eggs

Industries:
food processing, beverages, textiles, chemicals, iron, steel,
cement, energy, pharmaceuticals

Industrial production growth rate:
3.5% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
6.271 billion kWh (2005)

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

Electricity - consumption:
7.933 billion kWh (2005)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2005)

Electricity - imports:
1.662 billion kWh (2005)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
23,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
100 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
100 million cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-167 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$2.341 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

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

Exports - partners:
Serbia and Montenegro 22.5%, Germany 17.8%, Greece 15.3%, Italy
8.3% (2005)

Imports:
$3.631 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

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

Imports - partners:
Russia 13.2%, Germany 10.4%, Greece 9.2%, Serbia and Montenegro
8.2%, Bulgaria 7.3%, Italy 6% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.845 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$2.138 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
NA

Currency (code):
Macedonian denar (MKD)

Currency code:
MKD

Exchange rates:
Macedonian denars per US dollar - 48.9962 (2006), 48.92 (2005),
49.41 (2004), 54.322 (2003), 64.35 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Macedonia

Telephones - main lines in use:
533,200 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.261 million (2005)

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

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 29, FM 2