and encouraging greater labor flexibility and greater labor
participation by its aging population.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$279.5 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$309.3 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
3.3% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$34,100 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.8%
industry: 30.4%
services: 67.8% (2005 est.)

Labor force:
3.52 million (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 3%
industry: 27%
services: 70% (2005 est.)

Unemployment rate:
4.9% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
5.9% (2004)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.3%
highest 10%: 22.5% (2004)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
31 (2002)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.6% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
21% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $155.9 billion
expenditures: $161.6 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
63% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
grains, potatoes, sugar beets, wine, fruit; dairy products, cattle,
pigs, poultry; lumber

Industries:
construction, machinery, vehicles and parts, food, metals,
chemicals, lumber and wood processing, paper and paperboard,
communications equipment, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
5.7% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
65.56 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 29.3%
hydro: 67.2%
nuclear: 0%
other: 3.5% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
64.07 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
13.5 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
16.6 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
25,360 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
282,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
30,140 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - imports:
152,600 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - proved reserves:
84.3 million bbl (2004)

Natural gas - production:
1.963 billion cu m (2004)

Natural gas - consumption:
8.981 billion cu m (2004)

Natural gas - exports:
1.324 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
8.407 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
15.01 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$5.913 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$144.4 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery a