production: 33.162 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 58.76%
hydro: 0.62%
nuclear: 40.62%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 35.362 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 2.2 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 4.4 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: wheat, corn, sunflower seed, potatoes,
sugar beets; pigs, cattle, poultry, dairy products

Exports: $20.7 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: machinery and equipment 51.9%, other
manufactures 32.7%, agriculture and food products 10.5%, raw
materials 2.9%, fuels and electricity 1.9% (1998)

Exports--partners: Germany 37.3%, Austria 11.4%, Italy 6.1%,
Russia 5.0% (1997)

Imports: $22.9 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment 46.5%, other
manufactures 40.2%, fuels and electricity 6.6%, agricultural and
food products 3.7%, raw materials 3.0% (1998)

Imports--partners: Germany 26.7%, Austria 10.5%, Italy 9.5%,
Russia 7.4% (1997)

Debt--external: $22.1 billion (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $122.7 million (1995)

Currency: 1 forint (Ft) = 100 filler

Exchange rates: forints per US$1--215.960 (January 1999), 214.402
(1998), 186.789 (1997), 152.647 (1996), 125.681 (1995),105.160 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 2.16 million (267,000 cellular telephone subscribers)
(1996)

Telephone system: 14,213 telex lines; automatic telephone network
based on microwave radio relay system; the average waiting time for
telephones is expected to drop to one year by the end of 1997 (down
from over 10 years in the early 1990s); note--the former state-owned
telecommunications firm MATAV--now privatized and managed by a
US/German consortium--has ambitious plans to upgrade the inadequate
system, including a contract with the German firm Siemens and the
Swedish firm Ericsson to provide 600,000 new telephone lines
domestic: microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth stations--1 Intelsat and 1
Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 32, FM 15, shortwave 0

Radios: 6 million (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 39 (in addition, there are
low-power stations) (1997)

Televisions: 4.38 million (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 7,606 km
broad gauge: 36 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 7,394 km 1.435-m gauge (2,207 km el