ource: fossil fuel: 56.78% hydro: 12.49%
other: 2.9% (2000) nuclear: 27.83%
Electricity - consumption: 201.159 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 7.832 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports: 12.166 billion kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products: grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes, sugar
beets, citrus; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish
Exports: $118.6 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
Exports - commodities: machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, other
consumer goods
Exports - partners: EU 71.2% (France 19.6%, Germany 11.8%, Portugal 9.9%,
Italy 9%, UK 9%), US 4.4%, Latin America 4% (January-October 2001)
Imports: $150.5 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals,
semifinished goods; foodstuffs, consumer goods (1997)
Imports - partners: EU 63.1% (France 16.4%, Germany 15.5%, Italy 9%,
UK 6.9%, Benelux 3.5%), OPEC 5%, US 4.5%, Japan 2.5%, Latin America 2%
(January-October 2001)
Debt - external: $90 billion (1993 est.)
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.33 billion (1999)
Currency: euro (EUR); Spanish peseta (ESP) note: on 1 January 1999,
the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to
be used by the financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January
2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions with
the member countries
Currency code: EUR; ESP
Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 1.1324 (January 2002), 1.1175
(2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); pesetas per US dollar - 149.40
(1998), 146.41 (1997)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications Spain
Telephones - main lines in use: 17.336 million (1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 8.394 million (1999)
Telephone system: general assessment: generally adequate, modern
facilities; teledensity
NA international: Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat;
tropospheric scatter
to adjacent countries
Radio broadcast stations: AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 13.1 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 224 (plus 2,105 repeaters) note: these
figures include 11 television broadcast stations and 88 repeaters in
the Canary Islands (1995)
Televisions: 16.2 million (1997)
Internet country code: .es
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 56 (2000)
Internet users: 7.38 million (2001)
Transportation Spain
Railways: total: 15,171 km broad gauge: 12,781 km 1.668-m gauge (6,434
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