Unemployment rate: 8.8% (December 1994)
Budget:
revenues: $109.9 billion
expenditures: $122.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1992 est.)
Exports: $153 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: metal products, chemicals, processed food and tobacco,
agricultural products
partners: EC 77% (Germany 27%, Belgium-Luxembourg 15%, UK 10%),
Central and Eastern Europe 10%, US 4% (1991)
Imports: $137 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.) commodities: raw materials and semifinished products, consumer goods, transportation equipment, crude oil, food products partners: EC 64% (Germany 26%, Belgium-Luxembourg 14%, UK 8%), US 8% (1991)
External debt: $0
Industrial production: growth rate -1.5% (1993 est.); accounts for 25% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 17,520,000 kW production: 72.4 billion kWh consumption per capita: 5,100 kWh (1993)
Industries: agroindustries, metal and engineering products, electrical machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum, fishing, construction, microelectronics
Agriculture: accounts for 4.6% of GDP; animal production predominates;
crops - grains, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits, vegetables; shortages
of grain, fats, and oils
Illicit drugs: important gateway for cocaine, heroin, and hashish entering Europe; European producer of illicit amphetamines and other synthetic drugs