Inflation rate-consumer price index: 1.8% (1997 est.)
Labor force: total: 1.856 million (1997 est.) by occupation: financial, business, and other services 33.5%, manufacturing 25.6%, commerce 22.9%, construction 6.6%, other 11.4% (1994)
Unemployment rate: 3% (1997 est.)
Budget: revenues: $16.3 billion expenditures: $13.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY97/98 est.)
Industries: electronics, financial services, oil drilling equipment, petroleum refining, rubber processing and rubber products, processed food and beverages, ship repair, entrepot trade, biotechnology
Industrial production growth rate: 7% (1996 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 4.513 million kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 21 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 7,234 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: rubber, copra, fruit, vegetables; poultry