4.7% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
71.75 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 76.1% hydro: 2.9% nuclear: 20% other: 1% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
55.33 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
20.9 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
9.5 billion kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
7,419 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
175,700 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
26,670 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
192,300 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
17.25 million bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
160 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
9.892 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
1 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
9.521 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.057 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
Current account balance:
$-5.73 billion (2004 est.)
Exports:
$66.51 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 52%, chemicals 5%, raw materials
and fuel 9% (2003)
Exports - partners:
Germany 36.1%, Slovakia 8.4%, Austria 6%, Poland 5.3%, UK 4.7%,
France 4.7%, Italy 4.3%, Netherlands 4.3% (2004)
Imports:
$68.19 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 46%, raw materials and fuels 15%,
chemicals 10% (2003)
Imports - partners:
Germany 31.7%, Slovakia 5.4%, Italy 5.3%, China 5.2%, Poland 4.8%,
France 4.8%, Russia 4.1% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$32.78 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$36.28 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$2.4 billion in available EU structural adjustment and cohesion
funds (2004–06)
Currency (code):
Czech koruna (CZK)
Currency code:
CZK
Exchange rates:
koruny per US dollar - 25.7 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 32.739 (2002),
38.035 (2001), 38.598 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Czech Republic
Telephones - main lines in use:
3.626 million (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
9,708,700 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: privatization and modernization of the Czech
telecommunication system got a late start but is advancing steadily;
growth in the use of mobile cellular telephones is particularly
vigorous
domestic: 86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber
systems now being enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
(ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals;
trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 2
Intersputnik (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Intelsat, 1
Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000)
Radios:
3,159,134 (December 2000)
Television broadcast stations:
150 (plus 1,434 repeaters) (2000)
Televisions:
3,405,834 (December 2000)
Internet country code:
.cz
Internet hosts:
295,677 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
more than 300 (2000)
Internet users:
2.7 million (2003)
Transportation Czech Republic
Railways:
total: 9,543 km
standard gauge: 9,421 km 1.435-m gauge (2,893 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 122 km 0.760-m gauge (23 km electrified) (2004)
Highways:
total: 127,204 km
paved: 127,204 km (including 518 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (2002)
Waterways:
664 km (on Elbe, Vltava, and Oder rivers) (2004)
Pipelines:
gas 7,020 km; oil 547 km; refined products 94 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem
Merchant marine:
registered in other countries: 3
Airports:
120 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 44 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 9 1,524 to 2,437 m: 14 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 17 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 76 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 27 under 914 m: 48 (2004 est.)
Heliports: 2 (2004 est.)
Military Czech Republic
Military branches:
Army of the Czech Republic (ACR): Joint Forces Command, Support and
Training Forces Command (2005)
Military service age and obligation: 18–50 years of age for voluntary military service; military service transformed into a fully professional, all-volunteer force no longer dependent on conscription beginning in January 2004 (2005)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18–49: 2,414,728 (2005 est.)
Manpower