_#_Unemployment rate: 8.2% est. (1991 est.)

_#_Budget: revenues $45.0 billion; expenditures $55.3 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (1989)

_#_Exports: $106 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.) Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union;

commodities—iron and steel, transportation equipment, tractors, diamonds, petroleum products;

partners—EC 74%, US 5%, Communist countries 2% (1989)

_#_Imports: $108 billion (c.i.f., 1989) Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union;

commodities—fuels, grains, chemicals, foodstuffs;

partners—EC 73%, US 4%, oil-exporting less developed countries 4%, Communist countries 3% (1989)

_#_External debt: $28.8 billion (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 1.3% (1991 est.); accounts for almost 30% of GDP