war economy - to foreign countries,
including the US, rather than in Germany, so they can be closer to
their markets and avoid Germany's high production costs. The
conditions under which European economic integration - especially
movement toward a single European currency - will proceed will be
another key issue facing Germany in the next few years.

GDP:
Germany: purchasing power parity - $1.4522 trillion (1995 est.)
western: purchasing power parity - $1.3318 trillion (1995 est.)
eastern: purchasing power parity - $120.4 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate:
Germany: 1.8% (1995 est.)
western: 1.5% (1995 est.)
eastern: 6.3% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita:
Germany: $17,900 (1995 est.)
western: $21,100 (1995 est.)
eastern: $6,600 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 1%
industry: 34.2%
services: 64.8% (1994)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
western: 2% (1995 est.)
eastern: 2% (1995 est.)

Labor force: 36.75 million
by occupation: industry 41%, agriculture 6%, other 53% (1987)

Unemployment rate:
western: 8.7% (December 1995)
eastern: 14.9% (December 1995)

Budget:
revenues: $690 billion
expenditures: $780 billion, including capital expenditures of $96.5
billion (1994)

Industries:
western: among world's largest and technologically advanced
producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery,
vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages
eastern: metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding,
machine building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum refining

Industrial production growth rate:
western: 2.8% (1994)
eastern: NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 115,430,000 kW
production: 493 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,683 kWh (1993)

Agriculture:
western: potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbage;
cattle, pigs, poultry
eastern: wheat, rye, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, fruit; pork,
beef, chicken, milk, hides

Illicit drugs: source of precursor chemicals for South American
cocaine processors; transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin
and Latin American cocaine for West European markets

Exports: $437 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: manufactures 89.3% (including machines and machine
tools, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel products),
agricultural products 5.5%, raw materials 2.7%, fuels 1.3% (1993)
partners: EC 47.9% (France