est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 5%
industry: 33.8%
services: 61.2% (1996)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 4.6%
highest 10%: 23.5% (1993)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.7% (1998)

Labor force: 3.655 million (1998)

Labor force--by occupation: industry 33.1%, agriculture 6.9%,
construction 9.1%, transport and communications 7.2%, services 43.7%
(1994)

Unemployment rate: 7% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $16.1 billion
expenditures: $16.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997)

Industries: fuels, ferrous metallurgy, machinery and equipment,
coal, motor vehicles, glass, armaments

Industrial production growth rate: 6.7% (1998 est.)

Electricity--production: 60.214 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 76.69%
hydro: 3.04%
nuclear: 20.27%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 60.164 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 8.8 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 8.75 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit;
pigs, cattle, poultry; forest products

Exports: $23.8 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: manufactured goods 40.5%, machinery and
transport equipment 37.7%, chemicals 8.8%, raw materials and fuel
7.8% (1997)

Exports--partners: Germany 35.7%, Slovakia 12.9%, Austria 6.4%,
Poland 5.7%, Russia 3.4%, Italy 3.3%, France 2.5% (1997)

Imports: $26.8 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery and transport equipment 38.1%,
manufactured goods 19.3%, raw materials and fuels 12.4%, chemicals
12.2%, and food 5.2% (1997)

Imports--partners: Germany 26.6%, Slovakia 8.4%, Italy 5.3%,
Austria 4.4%, FSU 3.4%, UK 3.4%, Poland 3.2% (1997)

Debt--external: $21.6 billion (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $351.6 million (1995)

Currency: 1 koruna (Kc) = 100 haleru

Exchange rates: koruny (Kcs) per US$1--30.214 (December 1998),
32.294 (1998), 31.698 (1997), 27.145 (1996), 26.541 (1995), 28.785
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 3,349,539 (1993 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intersputnik (Atlantic and
Indian Ocean regions)

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 67 (in addit