GDP: purchasing power parity-$631.2 billion (1997 est.)
GDP-real growth rate: 6% (1997 est.)
GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$13,700 (1997 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 8% industry: 45% services: 47% (1991 est.)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 5% (1996)
Labor force: total: 20 million by occupation: services and other 52%, mining and manufacturing 27%, agriculture, fishing, forestry 21% (1991)
Unemployment rate: 2% (1996)
Budget: revenues: $101 billion expenditures: $101 billion, including capital expenditures of $20 billion (1996 est.)
Industries: electronics, automobile production, chemicals, shipbuilding, steel, textiles, clothing, footwear, food processing
Industrial production growth rate: 8.2% (1996)