Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force: 1.88 million (2000)
Labor force - by occupation: services 65%, industry 25%, agriculture 10% (1995)
Unemployment rate: 6.3% (2000 est.)
Budget: revenues: $19.2 billion
expenditures: $19.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)
Industries: food processing, wood and paper products, textiles, machinery, transportation equipment, banking and insurance, tourism, mining
Industrial production growth rate: 6.2% (2000)
Electricity - production: 37.952 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 30.49%