Unemployment rate: 13.5% (1995 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $19.3 billion
expenditures: $20.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $3.6
billion (1994)
Industries: food products, brewing, textiles, clothing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, machinery, transportation equipment, glass and crystal
Industrial production growth rate: 8.9% (1995 est.)
Electricity: capacity: 3,930,000 kW production: 14.9 billion kWh consumption per capita: 3,938 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: turnips, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat; meat
and dairy products
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for hashish from North Africa
to the UK and Netherlands
Exports: $29.9 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: chemicals, data processing equipment, industrial
machinery, live animals, animal products
partners: EU 73% (UK 27%, Germany 14%, France 9%), US 9%
Imports: $25.3 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: food, animal feed, data processing equipment, petroleum
and petroleum products, machinery, textiles, clothing
partners: EU 58% (UK 36%, Germany 7%, France 4%), US 18%
External debt: $19.5 billion (1994 est.)