Distribution of family income - Gini index: 27.3 (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.7% (2001)
Labor force: 23.6 million (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: services 63%, industry 32%, agriculture 5% (2001)
Unemployment rate: 10% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $504 billion expenditures: $517 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)
Industries: tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics
Industrial production growth rate: -0.4% (2001)
Electricity - production: 257.408 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 80.01% hydro: 17.07% other: 2.92% (2000) nuclear: 0%