capital expenditures of $NA (2002 est.)

Industries: buses, vans, street and railroad cars, synthetic
fibers, agricultural machinery, fertilizers, washing machines, radios,
electronics, pharmaceuticals, processed foods, textiles; note - dependent
on imports for energy and raw materials

Industrial production growth rate: 6.4% (2001 est.)

Electricity - production: 3.301 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 33.02% hydro: 66.98%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 5.16 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 500 million kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 2.59 billion kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: grain, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables; beef,
pork, milk, eggs; fish

Exports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Exports - commodities: wood and wood products, machinery and equipment,
metals, textiles, foodstuffs

Exports - partners: Germany 17%, UK 16%, Sweden 10%, Lithuania 8%
(2001 est.)

Imports: $3.3 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels,
vehicles

Imports - partners: Germany 17%, Russia 9%, Lithuania 8%, Finland 8%,
Sweden 7% (2001 est.)

Debt - external: $2.6 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $96.2 million (1995)

Currency: Latvian lat (LVL)

Currency code: LVL

Exchange rates: lati per US dollar - 0.6384 (January 2002), 0.628
(2001), 0.607 (2000), 0.585 (1999), 0.590 (1998), 0.581 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Latvia

Telephones - main lines in use: 734,693 (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 401,263 (2000)

Telephone system: general assessment: inadequate, but is being
modernized to provide an international capability independent of the
Moscow international switch; more facilities are being installed for
individual use domestic: expansion underway in intercity trunk line
connections, rural exchanges, and mobile systems; still many unsatisfied
subscriber applications international: earth station at Riga, enabling
direct connections for most calls (1998)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 8, FM 56, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios: 1.76 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 44 (plus 31 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions: 1.22 million (1997)

Internet country code: .lv

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 41 (2001)

Internet users: 310,000 (2001)

Transportation Latvia

Railways: total: 2,412 km broad gauge: