Labor force: 262,300 (of whom 87,400 are foreign cross-border workers primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2000)
Labor force - by occupation: services 90.1%, industry 8%, agriculture 1.9% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 2.4% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $4.44 billion expenditures: $4.44 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries: banking, iron and steel, food processing, chemicals, metal products, engineering, tires, glass, aluminum
Industrial production growth rate: 1.9% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production: 467.7 million kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 57.52% hydro: 25.66% other: 16.82% (2000) nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption: 6.158 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 735 million kWh (2000)