GDP - real growth rate: -0.75% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $22,600 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.8% industry: 31.1% services: 66.1% (1995)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 0.8% (1996)
Labor force: total: 3.776 million (939,000 foreign workers, mostly Italian) by occupation: services 67%, manufacturing and construction 29%, agriculture and forestry 4% (1994)
Unemployment rate: 5.3% (December 1996)
Budget: revenues: $31 billion expenditures : $36.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1995)
Industries: machinery, chemicals, watches, textiles, precision instruments
Industrial production growth rate: -2% (1996 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 14.27 million kW (1994)