rce:

205,000 of whom 121,600 are foreign cross-border workers commuting
primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany (2007 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 1%
industry: 13%
services: 86% (2004 est.)

Unemployment rate:

4.4% (2007 est.)

Population below poverty line:

NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 3.5%
highest 10%: 23.8% (2000)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

26 (2005)

Investment (gross fixed):

20.2% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $19.78 billion
expenditures: $18.9 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

6.4% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

2.3% (2007 est.)

Stock of money:

NA
note: see entry for the European Union for money supply in the Euro
Area; the European Central Bank (ECB) controls monetary policy for
the 15 members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); individual
members of the EMU do not control the quantity of money and quasi
money circulating within their own borders

Stock of quasi money:

NA (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$357.9 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

wine, grapes, barley, oats, potatoes, wheat, fruits; dairy products,
livestock products

Industries:

banking and financial services, iron and steel, information
technology, telecommunications, cargo transportation, food
processing, chemicals, metal products, engineering, tires, glass,
aluminum, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:

1.7% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

3.01 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

6.748 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

2.887 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

6.847 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 57.3%
hydro: 25.2%
nuclear: 0%
other: 17.5% (2001)

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

60,640 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

281.5 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

63,760 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

1.329 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

1.329 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved