city - consumption: 35.095 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 1.2 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports: 5.2 billion kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, sunflower seed, potatoes, sugar
beets; pigs, cattle, poultry, dairy products
Exports: $27.9 billion (f.o.b., 2001)
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment 59.5%, other manufactures
29.4%, food products 6.9%, raw materials 2.4%, fuels and electricity 1.8%
(2000)
Exports - partners: Germany 37%, Austria 9%, Italy 6%, Netherlands 5%
(2000)
Imports: $29.5 billion (f.o.b., 2001)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment 51.1%, other manufactures
35.9%, fuels and electricity 8.1%, food products 2.8%, raw materials 2.1%
(2000)
Imports - partners: Germany 25%, Russia 8%, Austria 7%, Italy 7% (2000)
Debt - external: $28.5 billion (2001)
Economic aid - recipient: $122.7 million (1995)
Currency: forint (HUF)
Currency code: HUF
Exchange rates: forints per US dollar - 275.920 (January 2002), 286.490
(2001), 282.179 (2000), 237.146 (1999), 214.402 (1998), 186.789 (1997)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications Hungary
Telephones - main lines in use: 3.095 million (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1.269 million (July 1999)
Telephone system: general assessment: the telephone system has been
modernized and is capable of satisfying all requests for telecommunication
service domestic: by fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio
relay; a program for fiber-optic subscriber connections was initiated
in 1996; heavy use is made of mobile cellular telephones international:
Hungary has fiber-optic cable connections with all neighboring countries;
the international switch is in Budapest; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Inmarsat, 1 very
small aperture terminal (VSAT) system of ground terminals
Radio broadcast stations: AM 17, FM 57, shortwave 3 (1998)
Radios: 7.01 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 35 (plus 161 low-power repeaters) (1995)
Televisions: 4.42 million (1997)
Internet country code: .hu
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000)
Internet users: 1.2 million (2001)
Transportation Hungary
Railways: total: 7,869 km broad gauge: 36 km 1.524-m gauge narrow gauge:
219 km 0.760-m gauge standard gauge: 7,614 km 1.435-m gauge (2,423 km
electrified; 1,236 km double-tracked) note: Hungary and Austria jo
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