Czechoslovakia Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $127.9 billion in 1984 (in 1984 dollars), $8,280 per capita; 1984 real growth rate 2.3%

Natural resources: coal, coke, timber, lignite, uranium, magnesite

Agriculture: diversified agriculture main crops—wheat, rye, oats, corn, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, hogs, cattle, horses; net food importer—meat, wheat, vegetable oils, fresh fruits and vegetables

Major industries, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, cement, sheet glass, motor vehicles, armaments, chemicals, ceramics, wood, paper products

Shortages: ores, crude oil

Crude steel: 14.8 million metric tons produced (1984), 960 kg per capita

Electric power: 20,330,000 kW capacity (1985); 79.5 billion kWh produced (1985), 5,128 kWh per capita

Exports: $17,398 billion (f.o.b., 1984); 54.8% machinery and equipment; 16.2% manufactured consumer goods; 14.2% fuels, minerals, and metals; 6.7% agricultural and forestry products, 8.1% other products (1984 prelim.)

Imports: $17,585 billion (f.o.b., 1984); 41.1% fuels, minerals, and metals; 33.2% machinery and equipment; 12.1% agricultural and forestry products; 5.7% manufactured consumer goods; 7.9% other products v 1984)

Major trade partners USSR, GDR, Poland, Hungary, FRG, Yugoslavia, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania; $32,484 million (1982); 71% with Communist countries, 29% with nonCommunist countries (1984)

Czechoslovakia

Monetary conversion rate: 6.65 koronas= US$1 (1983 average)

Fiscal year: calendar year

NOTE: foreign trade figures were converted at the rate of 6.9 koronas=US$l (January 1982)

NOTE: The information regarding Czechoslovakia on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Czechoslovakia 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Czechoslovakia 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.