Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 4.2%
highest 10%: 21.6% (1991)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 2.533 million

Labor force--by occupation: public services 30.4%, industry 20.9%,
commerce 15%, finance, insurance, and business services 10.2%,
agriculture and forestry 8.6%, transport and communications 7.7%,
construction 7.2%

Unemployment rate: 12% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $33 billion
expenditures: $40 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996 est.)

Industries: metal products, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, copper
refining, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing

Industrial production growth rate: 7.4% (1995)

Electricity--production: 67.469 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 54.73%
hydro: 17.35%
nuclear: 27.9%
other: 0.02% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 71.169 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 1.7 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 5.4 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: cereals, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy
cattle; fish

Exports: $43 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals;
timber, paper, and pulp

Exports--partners: Germany 11%, UK 10%, Sweden 10%, US 7%, Russia
7%, France 4%, Japan (1997)

Imports: $30.7 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum
products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery,
textile yarn and fabrics, fodder grains

Imports--partners: Germany 15%, Sweden 12%, UK 8%, Russia 8%, US
7%, Japan 5% (1997)

Debt--external: $30 billion (December 1993)

Economic aid--donor: ODA, $388 million (1995)

Currency: 1 markka (FMk) or Finmark = 100 pennia

Exchange rates: markkaa (FMk) per US$1--5.12 (January 1999),
5.3441 (1998), 5.1914 (1997), 4.5936 (1996), 4.3667 (1995), 5.2235
(1994);
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Union introduced a common
currency that is now being used by financial institutions in some
member countries at the rate of 0.8597 euros per US$ and a fixed
rate of 5.93472 Markkaa per euro; the euro will replace the local
currency in consenting countries for all transactions in 2002

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 2.5 million (1995 est.)

Telephone system: modern system with excellent service
domestic: cable, micr