Inflation rate (consumer prices):
-0.3% (2003 est.)
Labor force:
10.08 million (2003)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 7.5%, industry 35%, services 57% (2001 est.)
Unemployment rate:
5% (2003 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $56.58 billion
expenditures: $69.21 billion, including capital expenditures of
$14.4 billion (2003 est.)
Public debt:
30.5% of GDP (2003)
Agriculture - products:
rice, corn, vegetables, fruit, tea; pigs, poultry, beef, milk, fish
Industries:
electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, textiles, iron and
steel, machinery, cement, food processing
Industrial production growth rate:
8.4% (2003)
Electricity - production:
151.1 billion kWh (2001)