Unemployment rate:
4.1% (2005 est.)

Population below poverty line:
0.9% (2005)

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 6.7% highest 10%: 41.1% (2002 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.3% (2005 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
20.4% of GDP (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $41.67 billion
expenditures: $50.26 billion; including capital expenditures of
$14.4 billion (2005 est.)

Public debt:
33.6% of GDP (2005 est.)

Agriculture - products:
rice, corn, vegetables, fruit, tea; pigs, poultry, beef, milk; fish

Industries:
electronics, petroleum refining, armaments, chemicals, textiles,
iron and steel, machinery, cement, food processing, vehicles,
consumer products, pharmaceuticals

Industrial production growth rate:
4.1% (2005 est.)