Inflation rate-consumer price index: 1.2% (1997 est.)
Labor force: total: 2.533 million by occupation: public services 30.4%, industry 20.9%, commerce 15.0%, finance, insurance, and business services 10.2%, agriculture and forestry 8.6%, transport and communications 7.7%, construction 7.2%
Unemployment rate: 14.6% (1997 est.)
Budget: revenues: $33 billion expenditures: $40 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1996 est.)
Industries: metal products, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, copper refining, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing
Industrial production growth rate: 7.4% (1995)
Electricity-capacity: 14.143 million kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 58.626 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 13,181 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: cereals, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; annual fish catch about 160,000 metric tons