Inflation rate - consumer price index: 1.8% (1996 est.)
Labor force: total: 3.648 million (1996) by occupation: services 56.4%, industry and crafts 35.4%, agriculture and forestry 8.1% note : an estimated 200,000 Austrians are employed in other European countries; foreign laborers in Austria number 177,840, about 5% of labor force (1988)
Unemployment rate: 6.2% (December 1996)
Budget: revenues: $61.2 billion expenditures: $71 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
Industries: food, iron and steel, machines, textiles, chemicals, electrical, paper and pulp, tourism, mining, motor vehicles
Industrial production growth rate: 0.6% (1996 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 17.43 million kW (1994)
Electricity - production: 56.5 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity - consumption per capita: 5,960 kWh (1995 est.)
Agriculture - products: grains, fruit, potatoes, sugar beets; cattle, pigs, poultry; sawn wood