:
$316.2 billion (2004 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
2.6% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $30,600 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.3%
industry: 25.7%
services: 73% (2004 est.)

Labor force:
4.75 million (2004 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 1.3%, industry 24.5%, services 74.2% (2003 est.)

Unemployment rate:
12% (first half, 2004)

Population below poverty line:
4% (1989 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.2%
highest 10%: 23% (1996)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
28.7 (1996)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.9% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
19.1% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $173.7 billion
expenditures: $174.8 billion, including capital expenditures of
$1.56 billion (2004 est.)

Public debt:
96.2% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
sugar beets, fresh vegetables, fruits, grain, tobacco; beef, veal,
pork, milk

Industries:
engineering and metal products, motor vehicle assembly,
transportation equipment, scientific instruments, processed food and
beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum

Industrial production growth rate:
3.5% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
76.58 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 38.4%
hydro: 0.6%
nuclear: 59.3%
other: 1.8% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
78.82 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
9.1 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
16.7 billion kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
595,100 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
450,000 bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
1.042 million bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
15.5 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
15.4 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Current account balance:
$11.4 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$255.7 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, diamonds, metals and metal
products, foodstuffs

Exports - partners:
Germany 19.9%, France 17.2%, Netherlands 11.8%, UK 8.6%, US 6.5%,
Italy 5.2% (2004)

Imports:
$235 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery