Unemployment rate:
4.4% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
3.9% (1999)

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.5% highest 10%: 22.5% (1995)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
31 (1995)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.8% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
22.6% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $142.5 billion
expenditures: $146.4 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
64.2% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
grains, potatoes, sugar beets, wine, fruit; dairy products, cattle,
pigs, poultry; lumber

Industries:
construction, machinery, vehicles and parts, food, metals,
chemicals, lumber and wood processing, paper and paperboard,
communications equipment, tourism