s - commodities: machinery and transport equipment 39.4%,
intermediate manufactured goods 27.5%, miscellaneous manufactured goods
13%, chemicals 8% (1999)

Exports - partners: EU 59.0% (Germany 26.8%, Italy 9.2%, Austria 8.4%),
Czech Republic 17.4% (2000)

Imports: $14.4 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment 37.7%,
intermediate manufactured goods 18%, fuels 13%, chemicals 11%,
miscellaneous manufactured goods 9.5% (1999)

Imports - partners: EU 48.9% (Germany 25.1%, Italy 6.2%), Russia 17.0%,
Czech Republic 14.7% (2000)

Debt - external: $7.8 billion (2001 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $421.9 million (1995)

Currency: Slovak koruna (SKK)

Currency code: SKK

Exchange rates: koruny per US dollar - 47.792 (September 2001), 46.035
(2000), 41.363 (1999), 35.233 (1998), 33.616 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Slovakia

Telephones - main lines in use: 1,934,558 (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 736,662 (April 1999)

Telephone system: general assessment: a modernization and privatization
program is increasing accessibility to telephone service, reducing
the waiting time for new subscribers, and generally improving service
quality domestic: and is being enlarged with fiber-optic cable,
especially in the larger cities; mobile cellular capability has been
added international: three international exchanges (one in Bratislava
and two in Banska Bystrica) are available; Slovakia is participating
in several international telecommunications projects that will increase
the availability of external services

Radio broadcast stations: AM 15, FM 78, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios: 3.12 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 38 (plus 864 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions: 2.62 million (1997)

Internet country code: .sk

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (2000)

Internet users: 700,000 (2000)

Transportation Slovakia

Railways: total: 3,660 km broad gauge: 102 km 1.520-m gauge narrow gauge:
51 km (46 km 1,000-m gauge; 5 km 0.750-m gauge) (2001) standard gauge:
3,507 km 1.435-m gauge (1,505 km electrified; 1,011 km double-tracked)

Highways: total: 17,710 km paved: 17,533 km (including 288 km of
expressways) unpaved: 177 km (1998 est.)

Waterways: 172 km (all on the Danube)

Pipelines: petroleum products NA km; natural gas 2,700 km

Ports and harbors: Bratislava, Komarno

Merchant marine: total: 3 ships