Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.8% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 17.1 million (2001)
Labor force - by occupation: services 64%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 29%, agriculture 7% (2001 est.)
Unemployment rate: 13% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $105 billion expenditures: $109 billion, including capital expenditures of $12.8 billion (2000 est.)
Industries: textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: 1% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production: 211.64 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 56.78% hydro: 12.49% other: 2.9% (2000) nuclear: 27.83%
Electricity - consumption: 201.159 billion kWh (2000)