2.35% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 35.208 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 19.2 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 3.8 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: grain, potatoes, rape, sugar beets; beef,
dairy products; fish

Exports: $48.8 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: machinery and instruments, meat and meat
products, fuels, dairy products, ships, fish, chemicals

Exports--partners: Germany 21.4%, Sweden 11.6%, UK 9.6%, Norway
6.2%, France 5.3%, US 4.6%, Netherlands 4.5% (1997)

Imports: $46.1 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment, petroleum,
chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, textiles, paper

Imports--partners: Germany 21.7%, Sweden 12.7%, Netherlands 7.8%,
UK 7.6%, France 5.6%, Norway 5.2%, US 5.0%, Japan (1997)

Debt--external: $44 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid--donor: ODA, $1.6 billion (1995)

Currency: 1 Danish krone (DKr) = 100 oere

Exchange rates: Danish kroner (DKr) per US$1--6.408 (January
1999), 6.701 (1998), 6.604 (1997), 5.799 (1996), 5.602 (1995), 6.361
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 3.2 million (1995 est.); 822,000 cellular telephone
subscribers

Telephone system: excellent telephone and telegraph services
domestic: buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form
trunk network, four cellular radio communications systems
international: 18 submarine fiber-optic cables linking Denmark with
Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Faroe
Islands, Iceland, and Canada; satellite earth stations--6 Intelsat,
10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East); note--the
Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)
share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for
world-wide Inmarsat access

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 78 (of which 35 are low-power
stations; in addition, there are 51 low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 3 million (1996 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 3,323 km (458 km privately owned and operated)
standard gauge: 3,323 km 1.435-m gauge (440 km electrified; 760 km
double track) (1996)

Highways:
total: 71,600 km
paved: 71,600 km (including 880 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: 417 km

Pipelines: crude oil 110 km; petroleum pr