Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.3% (1995)
Labor force: 11.837 million by occupation: services 59%, industry 21%, agriculture 11%, construction 9% (1993 est.)
Unemployment rate: 22.8% (yearend 1995)
Budget:
revenues: $96.8 billion
expenditures: $122.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $5.7
billion (1994 est.)
Industries: textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: 7% (1995 est.)
Electricity: capacity: 43,800,000 kW production: 148 billion kWh consumption per capita: 3,545 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes, sugar beets,
citrus; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish catch of 1.4
million metric tons is among top 20 nations
Illicit drugs: key European gateway country for Latin American
cocaine and North African hashish entering the European market;
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin
Exports: $85 billion (f.o.b., 1995) commodities: cars and trucks, semifinished manufactured goods, foodstuffs, machinery partners: EU 68.7%, US 4.9%, other developed countries 7.9% (1994)