_#_Unemployment rate: 5.7% (1990)

_#_Budget: revenues $385.0 billion; expenditures $385.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $35.0 billion (FY91 est.)

_#_Exports: $188.9 billion (f.o.b., 1990);

commodities—manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods, transport equipment;

partners—EC 50.7% (FRG 11.9%, France 10.2%, Netherlands 7.0%), US 13.1%

_#_Imports: $222 billion (c.i.f., 1990);

commodities—manufactured goods, machinery, semifinished goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods;

partners—EC 52.6% (FRG 16.6%, France 8.9%, Netherlands 7.9%), US 10.8%

_#_External debt: $10.5 billion (1990)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 0% (1990)