Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 7.2 million (2000)
Labor force - by occupation: services 73%, industry 23%, agriculture 4% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate: 2.4% (2001)
Budget: revenues: $134 billion expenditures: $134 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)
Industries: agroindustries, metal and engineering products, electrical machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum, construction, microelectronics, fishing
Industrial production growth rate: 1.9% (2001)
Electricity - production: 87.953 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 90.27% hydro: 0.16% other: 5.33% (2000) nuclear: 4.24%
Electricity - consumption: 100.712 billion kWh (2000)