GDP - real growth rate: 3.6% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $23,600 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.1% industry: 27.7% services: 69.2% (1994)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 3.1% (1996 est.)
Labor force: total: 8.4 million (December 1996) by occupation : finance and services 34%, public and community services 23%, wholesale and retail trade 20%, manufacturing and industry 17%, agriculture 6% (1987 est.)
Unemployment rate: 8.5% (1996 est.)
Budget: revenues: $95.69 billion expenditures : $95.15 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY95/96 est.)
Industries: mining, industrial and transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, steel
Industrial production growth rate: 1.2% (1995)
Electricity - capacity: 38.83 million kW (1994)