Unemployment rate: 6.3% plus about 5% in training programs (1998
est.)
Budget:
revenues: $109.4 billion
expenditures: $146.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY95/96)
Industries: iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles
Industrial production growth rate: 4.4% (1998)
Electricity—production: 135.192 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 9.75% hydro: 37.52% nuclear: 52.62% other: 0.11% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 141.392 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 9.7 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 15.9 billion kWh (1996)
Agriculture—products: grains, sugar beets, potatoes; meat, milk