Inflation rate - consumer price index: 2.3% (1995)
Labor force: total: 213,100 (one-third of labor force is foreign workers, mostly from Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany) by occupation : trade, restaurants, hotels 20%, mining, quarrying, manufacturing 16%, other market services 18%, community, social, personal services 14%, construction 11%, finance, insurance, real estate, business services 9%, transport, storage, communications 8%, agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing 1%, electricity, gas, water 1% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: 3% (1995)
Budget: revenues: $5.46 billion expenditures: $5.44 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries: banking, iron and steel, food processing, chemicals, metal products, engineering, tires, glass, aluminum
Industrial production growth rate: 3.3% (1995 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 1.2 million kW (1994)
Electricity - production: 1.2 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity - consumption per capita: 13,443 kWh (1995 est.)
Agriculture - products: barley, oats, potatoes, wheat, fruits, wine grapes; livestock products