s; meat, milk

Exports: $85.5 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper
products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals

Exports--partners: EU 55% (Germany 11%, UK 9%, Denmark 6%, Finland
5%), Norway 8%, US 8% (1994)

Imports: $66.6 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery, petroleum and petroleum products,
chemicals, motor vehicles, foodstuffs, iron and steel, clothing

Imports--partners: EU 68% (Germany 19%, UK 10%, Denmark 8%, France
6%), Norway 8%, US 6% (1997)

Debt--external: $66.5 billion (1994)

Economic aid--donor: ODA, $1.7 billion (1995)

Currency: 1 Swedish krona (SKr) = 100 oere

Exchange rates: Swedish kronor (SKr) per US$1--7.8193 (January
1999), 7.9499 (1998), 7.6349 (1997), 6.7060 (1996), 7.1333 (1995),
7.7160 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 13 million (1996 est.)

Telephone system: excellent domestic and international
facilities; automatic system
domestic: coaxial and multiconductor cable carry most voice traffic;
parallel microwave radio relay network carries some additional
telephone channels
international: 5 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth
stations--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat
(Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note--Sweden shares the Inmarsat
earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, and Norway)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 360 (mostly repeaters),
shortwave 0

Radios: 7.272 million (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 163 (1997)

Televisions: 3.5 million

Transportation

Railways:
total: 13,415 km (includes 3,594 km of privately-owned railways)
standard gauge: 13,415 km 1.435-m gauge (7,917 km electrified and
1,152 km double track) (1996)

Highways:
total: 138,000 km
paved: 105,018 km (including 1,330 km of expressways)
unpaved: 32,982 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: 2,052 km navigable for small steamers and barges

Pipelines: natural gas 84 km

Ports and harbors: Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg,
Hudiksvall, Kalmar, Karlshamn, Malmo, Solvesborg, Stockholm,
Sundsvall

Merchant marine:
total: 154 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,894,783
GRT/1,528,077 DWT
ships by type: bulk 6, cargo 28, chemical tanker 28, combination
ore/oil 4, liquefied gas tanker 1, oil tanker 24, railcar carrier 1,
refrigerated