Talk:Economy of Latvia
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I just updated the page with statistics from 2004 CIA World Factbook. Two notes:
- Among "industries", I didn't put in "buses, vans, street and railroad cars, washing machines" which were in CIA Factbook. I think those products are no longer produced in Latvia. Our van producer went bankcrupt a few years ago, the street and railroad car producer has produced almost nothing in last years, although there is a hope they may recover in the future. I am not aware of washing machines produced in Latvia in last 10 years.
- $6.6 billion for external debt sounds a lot more than I thought. Can anyone cross-check that? I will try to check myself as well. Andris 07:04, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
- I checked the debt figure. $6.6 billion is the total (government+private) external debt. Government debt alone is $0.7 billion. So, the question is: do the other country pages here give the total debt rather than the public one? If yes, it should stay as it is. If no, we should change it to be consistent with the rest of countries. Andris 07:35, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
