aims to have more bilateral or regional trade
agreements than any other country. It has 57 such agreements (not
all of them full free trade agreements), including with the European
Union, Mercosur, China, India, South Korea, and Mexico.

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$232.8 billion (2007 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):

$163.8 billion (2007 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

5.1% (2007 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

$14,300 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 4.8%
industry: 51.2%
services: 44% (2007 est.)

Labor force:

7.167 million (2007 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 13.6%
industry: 23.4%
services: 63% (2003)

Unemployment rate:

7% (2007 est.)

Population below poverty line:

18.2% (2005)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 1.4%
highest 10%: 45% (2003)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

54.9 (2003)

Investment (gross fixed):

20.6% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $44.96 billion
expenditures: $30.51 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

4.1% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

4.4% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

6% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

8.67% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$16.6 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$80.42 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$127.1 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

grapes, apples, pears, onions, wheat, corn, oats, peaches, garlic,
asparagus, beans; beef, poultry, wool; fish; timber

Industries:

copper, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and steel,
wood and wood products, transport equipment, cement, textiles

Industrial production growth rate:

11.1% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

50.37 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

45.52 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

1.628 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 47%
hydro: 51.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 1.4% (2001)

Oil - production:

11,610 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

253,000 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

32,500 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

222,900 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - pr