Budget:
revenues: $22.42 billion
expenditures: $21 billion (2008 est.)
Public debt:
10.2% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 113 6.4% of GDP (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.4% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 44 2.3% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
3% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 107 5% (31 December 2007)
note: this is the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks in the euro area