13.8% (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
11% (2003)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.4% highest 10%: 24.5% (2003 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
29 (1998)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
28.6% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $14.14 billion
expenditures: $15.65 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)
Public debt:
41.7% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, barley, alfalfa, clover,
olives, citrus, grapes, soybeans, potatoes; livestock, dairy products
Industries:
chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal,
electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper,
wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding,
petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages; tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
2.7% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
12.51 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 33.6% hydro: 66% nuclear: 0% other: 0.4% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
15.2 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
406 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
3.966 billion kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
21,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
89,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
93.6 million bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
1.76 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
2.84 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
1.08 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
34.36 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
Current account balance:
$-1.925 billion (2004 est.)
Exports:
$7.845 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels
Exports - partners:
Italy 23%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.4%, Germany 11.4%, Austria
9.6%, Slovenia 7.6% (2004)
Imports:
$16.7 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, transport and electrical equipment, chemicals, fuels and
lubricants, foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
Italy 17.1%, Germany 15.5%, Russia 7.3%, Slovenia 7.1%, Austria
6.9%, France 4.4% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$8.563 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$26.4 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
ODA $166.5 million (2002)
Currency (code):
kuna (HRK)
Currency code:
HRK
Exchange rates:
kuna per US dollar - 6.0358 (2004), 6.7035 (2003), 7.8687 (2002),
8.34 (2001), 8.2766 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Croatia
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.825 million (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.553 million (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: reconstruction plan calls for replacement of all analog
circuits with digital and enlarging the network; a backup will be
included in the plan for the main trunk
international: country code - 385; digital international service is
provided through the main switch in Zagreb; Croatia participates in
the Trans-Asia-Europe (TEL) fiber-optic project, which consists of
