coal,cement, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, rail transportation
equipment, passenger and commercial vehicles, construction
equipment, industrial equipment, shipbuilding, electrical power
equipment, machine tools and automated manufacturing systems,
electronics and telecommunications equipment, fishing, food and
beverage processing, furniture, paper, textiles, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
2.4% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
2.888 trillion kWh (2002 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
2.661 trillion kWh (2002 est.)
Electricity - exports:
270.8 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
268.5 billion kWh (2002 est.)
Oil - production:
2.648 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - consumption:
14.54 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - exports:
5.322 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
15.69 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
28.21 billion bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
242.6 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - consumption:
467.7 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - exports:
78.1 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - imports:
297.8 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.256 trillion cu m (1 January 2002)
Current account balance:
$NA
Exports:
$1.109 trillion
note: external exports, excluding intra EU trade (2003)
Exports - commodities:
machinery, motor vehicles, aircraft, plastics, pharmaceuticals and
other chemicals, fuels, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, wood pulp
and paper products, textiles, meat, dairy products, fish, alcoholic
beverages.
Exports - partners:
US 22.9%, Switzerland 6.9%, China 4.1%, Japan 4%
Imports:
$1.123 trillion
note: external imports, excluding intra-EU trade (2003)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, vehicles, aircraft, plastics, crude oil, chemicals,
textiles, metals, foodstuffs, clothing
Imports - partners:
US 15.1%, China 9.7%, Japan 6.7%, Switzerland 5.6%
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$NA
Currency (code):
euro, British pound, Danish kroner, Swedish kroner, Cypriot pound,
koruny (Czech Republic), krooni (Estonia), forint (Hungary), lati
(Latvia), litai (Lithuania), Maltese liri, zloty (Poland), koruny
(Slovakia), tolar (Slovenia)
Currency code:
EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.81 (2004), 0.89 (2003), 1.06 (2002), 1.12
(2001), 1.09 (2000)
Fiscal year:
NA
Communications European Union
Telephones - main lines in use:
238,763,162 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
314,644,700 (2002)
Telephone system:
note - see individual country entries of member states
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 866, FM 13,396, shortwave 73 (1998); note - sum of individual
country radio broadcast stations; there is also a European-wide
station (Euroradio)
Television broadcast stations:
2,791 (1995); note - does not include repeaters; sum of individual
country television broadcast stations; there is also a European-wide
station (Eurovision)
Internet country code:
.eu (effective 2005); note - see country entries of member states
for individual country codes
Internet hosts:
22,000,414 (2004); note - sum of individual country Internet hosts
Internet users:
206,032,067 (September 2004)
Transportation European Union
Railways:
total: 222,293 km
broad gauge: 28,438 km
standard gauge: 186,405 km
narrow gauge: 7,427 km
