6 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 3.5% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$16,500 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 3.4%
industry: 33.3%
services: 63.3% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 25.2% (1990)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 16.2 million

Labor force--by occupation: services 64%, manufacturing, mining,
and construction 28%, agriculture 8% (1997 est.)

Unemployment rate: 20% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $113 billion
expenditures: $139 billion, including capital expenditures of $15
billion (1995)

Industries: textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and
beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding,
automobiles, machine tools, tourism

Industrial production growth rate: 5.8% (1998)

Electricity--production: 163.468 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 43.17%
hydro: 23.92%
nuclear: 32.74%
other: 0.17% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 164.568 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 5.7 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 6.8 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes,
sugar beets, citrus; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish

Exports: $111.1 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: cars and trucks, other machinery and
manufactured goods, foodstuffs, and other consumer goods

Exports--partners: EU 70% (France 20%, Germany 18%, Italy 10%,
Portugal 9%, UK 8%), US 4.4% (1997)

Imports: $132.3 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: machinery, transport equipment, fuels,
semifinished goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, chemicals (1997)

Imports--partners: EU 65% (France 17%, Germany 15%, Italy 9%, UK
8%, Benelux 7%), US 6%, Japan 3% (1997)

Debt--external: $90 billion (1993 est.)

Economic aid--donor: ODA, $1.3 billion (1995)

Currency: 1 peseta (Pta) = 100 centimos

Exchange rates: pesetas (Ptas) per US$1--143.39 (January 1999),
149.40 (1998), 146.41 (1997), 126.66 (1996), 124.69 (1995), 133.96
(1994)
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Union introduced a common
currency that is now being used by financial institutions in some
member countries at the rate of 0.8597 euros per US$ and a fixed
rate of 166.386 pesetas p