Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 4.341 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation: services 73%, industry 25%, agriculture 2% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 9% (1999 est.)
Budget: revenues: $116.5 billion expenditures: $119 billion, including capital expenditures of $10.7 billion (1998 est.)
Industries: engineering and metal products, motor vehicle assembly, processed food and beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum, coal
Industrial production growth rate: -1% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 78.702 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 42.48% hydro: 0.49% nuclear: 55.72% other: 1.31% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 74.543 billion kWh (1998)