The 2010 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Natural gas - imports:
10.96 billion cu m (2009) country comparison to the world: 20
Natural gas - proved reserves:
16.14 billion cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 77
Current account balance:
$8.012 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 26 $8.73 billion (2009 est.)
Exports:
$157.4 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 29 $135.7 billion (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs
Exports - partners:
Germany 30.96%, Italy 8.17%, Switzerland 4.99%, US 3.99% (2009)
Imports:
$156 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 28 $138.7 billion (2009 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal goods, oil and oil products; foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
Germany 45.07%, Switzerland 6.76%, Italy 6.66%, Netherlands 4.03% (2009)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$NA (31 December 2010 est.)
$18.05 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Debt - external:
$755 billion (30 June 2010) country comparison to the world: 17 $864.2 billion (31 December 2008)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$290.7 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 18 $286.4 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$297.2 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 14 $290.5 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Exchange rates:
euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.7715 (2010), 0.7179 (2009), 0.6827 (2008), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006)
Communications ::Austria
Telephones - main lines in use:
3.253 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 46
Telephones - mobile cellular:
11.773 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 59
Telephone system:
general assessment: highly developed and efficient
domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership eclipsing it by the late 1990s; the fiber-optic net is very extensive; all telephone applications and Internet services are available
international: country code - 43; satellite earth stations - 15; in addition, there are about 600 VSATs (very small aperture terminals) (2007)
Broadcast media:
Austria's public broadcaster, ORF, was the main broadcast source until commercial radio and television service was introduced in the 1990s; cable and satellite TV are available, including German TV stations (2008)
Internet country code:
.at
Internet hosts:
3.266 million (2010) country comparison to the world: 29
Internet users:
6.143 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 43
Transportation ::Austria
Airports:
55 (2010) country comparison to the world: 84
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 25
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 14 (2010)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 30
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 26 (2010)
Heliports:
1 (2010)
Pipelines:
gas 2,721 km; oil 663 km; refined products 157 km (2009)
Railways:
total: 6,399 km country comparison to the world: 29 standard gauge: 5,927 km 1.435-m gauge (3,688 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 384 km 1.000-m gauge (15 km electrified); 88 km 0.760-m gauge (10 km electrified) (2008)
Roadways:
total: 107,262 km country comparison to the world: 40 paved: 107,262 km (includes 1,696 km of expressways) (2006)
Waterways:
358 km (2007) country comparison to the world: 91
Merchant marine:
total: 2 country comparison to the world: 141 by type: cargo 2
registered in other countries: 4 (Cyprus 1, Malta 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2) (2010)
Ports and terminals:
Enns, Krems, Linz, Vienna
Military ::Austria
Military branches:
Land Forces (KdoLdSK), Air Forces (KdoLuSK)
Military service age and obligation:
18–35 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for male or female voluntary service; service obligation 6 months of training, followed by an 8-year reserve obligation; conscripts cannot be deployed in military operations outside Austria (2009)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16–49: 1,960,781
females age 16–49: 1,926,134 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16–49: 1,595,379
females age 16–49: 1,566,884 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 49,455
female: 47,046 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
0.8% of GDP (2009) country comparison to the world: 150
Transnational Issues ::Austria
Disputes - international:
while threats of international legal action never materialized in 2007, 915,220 Austrians, with the support of the newly elected Freedom Party, signed a petition in January 2008, demanding that Austria block the Czech Republic's accession to the EU unless Prague closed its nuclear power plant in Temelin, bordering Austria
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and South American cocaine destined for Western Europe; increasing consumption of European-produced synthetic drugs
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