orts: 8.1 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 4.6 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: potatoes, fruits, vegetables, wheat; poultry,
eggs, pork, beef, milk, cheese
Exports: $27.8 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: manufactured goods and chemicals 57%, machinery
and equipment 21%, food and live animals 12%, mineral fuels 7% (1997)
Exports - partners: Germany 36%, Italy 5.8%, Russia 5.6%, Netherlands
4.7%, France 4.6%, Ukraine 3.8%, UK 3.8 (1998)
Imports: $40.8 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities: manufactured goods and chemicals 43%, machinery
and equipment 36%, mineral fuels 9%, food and live animals 8% (1997)
Imports - partners: Germany 25.8%, Italy 9.4%, France 6.5%, Russia
5.1%, UK 4.9%, US 3.8%, Netherlands 3.8% (1998)
Debt - external: $44 billion (1998)
Economic aid - recipient: $4.312 billion (1995)
Currency: 1 zloty (Zl) = 100 groszy
Exchange rates: zlotych (Zl) per US$1 - 4.1696 (December 1999), 3.9671
(1999), 3.4754 (1998), 3.2793 (1997), 2.6961 (1996), 2.4250 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Poland:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 8.07 million (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1.58 million (1998)
Telephone system: underdeveloped and outmoded system; government aims
to have 10 million telephones in service by 2000; the process of
partial privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly has begun
domestic: cable, open wire, and microwave radio relay; 3 cellular
networks; local exchanges 56.6% digital
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat, NA Eutelsat, 2
Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), and 1 Intersputnik
(Atlantic Ocean region)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 14, FM 777, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 20.2 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 150 (1997)
Televisions: 13.05 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 161 (1999)
@Poland:Transportation
Railways:
total: 23,420 km
broad gauge: 646 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 21,639 km 1.435-m gauge (11,626 km electrified; 8,978
km double track)
narrow gauge: 1,135 km various gauges including 1.000-m, 0.785-m,
0.750-m, and 0.600-m (1998)
Highways:
total: 381,046 km
paved: 249,966 km (including 268 km of expressways)
unpaved: 131,080 km (1998 est.)
Waterways: 3,812 km navigable rivers and canals (1996)
Pipelines: crude oil and petroleum products 2,280 km; natural gas
17,000 km (1996)
Ports and harbors: Gdans
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