e: 2.7% (1996 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $20,500 (1996 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 3%
industry: 26%
services: 71% (1993)

Inflation rate - consumer price index: 2% (1996 est.)

Labor force:
total: 6.4 million (1993)
by occupation: services 73%, manufacturing and construction 23%,
agriculture 4% (1994)

Unemployment rate: 6.5% (November 1996)

Budget:
revenues: $107.2 billion
expenditures: $118.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996 est.)

Industries: agroindustries, metal and engineering products, electrical
machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum, fishing, construction,
microelectronics

Industrial production growth rate: 2.9% (1996 est.)

Electricity - capacity: 18.65 million kW

Electricity - production: 78 billion kWh

Electricity - consumption per capita: 5,140 kWh (1995 est.)

Agriculture - products: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits,
vegetables; livestock

Exports:
total value: $176.2 billion (f.o.b., 1996)
commodities: manufactures and machinery, chemicals; processed food and
tobacco, agricultural products
partners: EU 75% (Germany 29%, Belgium-Luxembourg 13%, UK 9%), Central
and Eastern Europe 3%, US 4% (1994)

Imports:
total value: $159.7 billion (c.i.f., 1996)
commodities : raw materials and semifinished products, consumer goods,
transportation equipment, crude oil, food products
partners: EU 61% (Germany 24%, Belgium-Luxembourg 12%, UK 9%), US 8%
(1994)

Debt - external: $0

Economic aid:
donor : ODA, $3.4 billion (1996)

Currency: 1 Netherlands guilder, gulden, or florin (f.) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Netherlands guilders, gulden, or florins (f.) per US$1
- 1.8009 (January 1997), 1.6859 (1996), 1.6057 (1995), 1.8200 (1994),
1.8573 (1993), 1.7585 (1992)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Netherlands:Communications

Telephones: 8.272 million (1983 est.)

Telephone system: highly developed and well maintained; extensive
redundant system of multiconductor cables, supplemented by microwave
radio relay
domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; microwave radio relay
international: 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1
Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 3 (relays 3), FM 12 (repeaters 39),
shortwave 0

Radios: 13.755 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 8 (repeaters 7)