Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.6% (1992)
Unemployment rate: 2.4% (1994)
Budget:
revenues: $4 billion
expenditures: $4.05 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1994 est.)
Exports: $6.4 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
commodities: finished steel products, chemicals, rubber products,
glass, aluminum, other industrial products
partners: EC 76%, US 5%
Imports: $8.3 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.) commodities: minerals, metals, foodstuffs, quality consumer goods partners: Belgium 37%, Germany 31%, France 12%, US 2%
External debt: $800 million (1994 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate -0.5% (1990); accounts for 25% of
GDP
Electricity: capacity: 1,238,750 kW production: 1.374 billion kWh consumption per capita: 3,395 kWh (1993)
Industries: banking, iron and steel, food processing, chemicals, metal products, engineering, tires, glass, aluminum
Agriculture: accounts for less than 3% of GDP (including forestry); principal products - barley, oats, potatoes, wheat, fruits, wine grapes; cattle raising widespread