Unemployment rate: 13% (1995 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $6.1 billion
expenditures: $6.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)
Industries: metal and metal products; food and beverages; electricity, gas, coke, oil, and nuclear fuel; chemicals and manmade fibers; machinery; paper and printing; earthenware and ceramics; transport vehicles; textiles; electrical and optical apparatus; rubber products
Industrial production growth rate: 7.8% (January-August 1995)
Electricity: capacity: 6,300,000 kW production: 20.9 billion kWh consumption per capita: 3,609 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; hogs,
cattle, poultry; forest products
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin
bound for Western Europe
Exports: $8.8 billion (f.o.b., January-November 1995) commodities: machinery and transport equipment; chemicals; fuels, minerals, and metals; agricultural products partners: Czech Republic 35.4%, Germany 18.9%, Austria 5.0%, Italy 4.7%, Hungary 4.6%, Poland 4.4%, Russia 3.6%, Ukraine 2.1%, France 2.0%, Netherlands 1.7% (January-October 1995)
Imports: $8.7 billion (f.o.b., January-November 1995)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment; fuels and
lubricants; manufactured goods; raw materials; chemicals;
agricultural products
partners: Czech Republic 28.1%, Russia 16.8%, Germany 14.3%, Austria
5.2%, Italy 4.5%, Poland 2.9%, US 2.3%, France 2.3%, Hungary 2.2%,
Netherlands 1.7%, Ukraine 1.5% (January-October 1995)
External debt: $4.6 billion hard currency indebtedness (1995 est.)