tein plans to join the
European Economic Area (an organization serving as a bridge between
EFTA and EU) in 1995.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $630 million (1990 est.)

GDP real growth rate: NA%

GDP per capita: $22,300 (1990 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4% (1990)

Labor force: 20,000 of which 12,000 are foreigners; 6,885 commute
from Austria and Switzerland to work each day
by occupation: industry, trade, and building 48.1%, services 50.2%,
agriculture, fishing, forestry, and horticulture 1.7% (1993)

Unemployment rate: 0.9% (1995)

Budget:
revenues: $455 million
expenditures: $442 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)

Industries: electronics, metal manufacturing, textiles, ceramics,
pharmaceuticals, food products, precision instruments, tourism

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 23,000 kW
production: 150 million kWh
consumption per capita: 5,230 kWh (1992)

Agriculture: vegetables, corn, wheat, potatoes, grapes; livestock

Exports: $1.636 billion (1993)
commodities: small specialty machinery, dental products, stamps,
hardware, pottery
partners: EC countries 42.7%, EFTA countries 20.9% (Switzerland
15.4%), other 36.4% (1990)

Imports: $NA
commodities: machinery, metal goods, textiles, foodstuffs, motor
vehicles
partners: NA

External debt: $NA

Economic aid: none

Currency: 1 Swiss franc, franken, or franco (SwF) = 100 centimes,
rappen, or centesimi

Exchange rates: Swiss francs, franken, or franchi (SwF) per US$1 -
1.1810 (January 1996), 1.1825 (1995), 1.3677 (1994), 1.4776 (1993),
1.4062 (1992), 1.4340 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 18.5 km; note - owned, operated, and included in statistics
of Austrian Federal Railways
standard gauge: 18.5 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified)

Highways:
total: 238 km
paved: 238 km
unpaved: 0 km (1986 est.)

Ports: none

Airports: none

Communications
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Telephones: 18,916 (1993 est.)

Telephone system: limited, but sufficient automatic telephone
system
domestic: NA
international: linked to Swiss networks by cable and microwave radio
relay

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA
note: linked to Swiss networks

Radios: 11,000 (1993 es