Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.3% highest 10%: 22.4% (1996)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
25.4 (1996)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.2% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
29% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $39.31 billion
expenditures: $45.8 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
33.5% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, poultry

Industries:
metallurgy, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, glass,
armaments

Industrial production growth rate:
4.7% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
71.75 billion kWh (2002)