The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
do not now participate; the 10 new countries may choose to
join the EMU when they meet its fiscal and monetary criteria and the
member states so agree.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $11.05 trillion (2004 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
1% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $25,700 (2004 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.3% industry: 28.3% services: 69.4% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
percent of GDP - NA (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.9% highest 10%: 25.2% (1995 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
31.1 (2003 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2% (2004 est.)
Labor force:
211.1 million
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 4.3%, industry 29%, services 66.8% (2000)
Unemployment rate:
9.1% (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, barley, oilseeds, sugar beets, wine, grapes, dairy products,
cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, fish
Industries:
among the world's largest and most technologically advanced
industries, including iron and steel, aluminum, petroleum, coal,
cement, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, railroad
equipment, shipbuilding, electrical power equipment, machine tools,
electronics, telecommunications equipment, fishing, food processing,
furniture, paper, textiles and clothing, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
0.8% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
2.822 trillion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
2.635 trillion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
234.8 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
245.7 billion kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
3.244 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - consumption:
14.48 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - exports:
6.429 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
16.97 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
7.467 billion bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
243.8 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - consumption:
463.6 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - exports:
77.04 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - imports:
292.2 billion cu m (2001)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.262 trillion cu m (1 January 2002)
Current account balance:
$NA
Exports:
$850.3 billion (2002)
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:
NA
Imports:
$887.1 billion (2002)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, vehicles, aircraft, plastics, crude oil, chemicals,
textiles, metals, foodstuffs, clothing
Imports - partners:
NA
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$NA
Debt - external:
$NA
Economic aid - donor:
$NA
Currency:
euro; pound (Cyprus), koruna (Czech Republic), krone (Denmark),
kroon (Estonia), forint (Hungary), lat (Latvia), litas (Lithuania),
lira (Malta), zloty (Poland), koruna (Slovakia), tolar (Slovenia),
krona (Sweden), pound (UK)
Currency code:
EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001)
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 indiviual
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
narrow gauge: 7,427 km
standard gauge: 186,405 km
other: 23 km (2003)
Highways:
total: 4,634,810 km (including 56,704 km of expressways)
paved: 4,161,318 km