Unemployment rate:
8.4% (2005 est.)

Population below poverty line:
NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.2% highest 10%: 21.6% (1991)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
26.9 (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.9% (2005 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
19.2% of GDP (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $99.61 billion
expenditures: $97.14 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2005 est.)

Public debt:
39.6% of GDP (2005 est.)

Agriculture - products:
barley, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; fish

Industries:
metals and metal products, electronics, machinery and scientific
instruments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, foodstuffs, chemicals,
textiles, clothing