Unemployment rate:
3.6% (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
4% (2001 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.9% highest 10%: 22.5% (1999 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
35.8 (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.6% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
28.7% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $150.5 billion
expenditures: $155.8 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)
Public debt:
21.3% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
rice, root crops, barley, vegetables, fruit; cattle, pigs,
chickens, milk, eggs; fish
Industries:
electronics, telecommunications, automobile production, chemicals,
shipbuilding, steel