32 (2005)

Investment (gross fixed):

26.3% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $93.22 billion
expenditures: $92.46 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

24.9% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

4.9% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

NA

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

6.52% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

NA
note: see entry for the European Union for money supply in the Euro
Area; the European Central Bank (ECB) controls monetary policy for
the 15 members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); individual
members of the EMU do not control the quantity of money and quasi
money circulating within their own borders

Stock of quasi money:

NA (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$768.9 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

turnips, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat; beef, dairy products

Industries:

steel, lead, zinc, silver, aluminum, barite, and gypsum mining
processing; food products, brewing, textiles, clothing; chemicals,
pharmaceuticals; machinery, rail transportation equipment; glass and
crystal; software, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:

5% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

25.77 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

25.67 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

82 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

1.412 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 95.9%
hydro: 2.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 1.7% (2001)

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:

200,900 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

29,780 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

194,000 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:

457 million cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

4.984 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

4.552 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

9.911 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

-$14.12 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$115.5 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

machinery and equipment, computers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; live
animals, animal products

Exports - partners:

UK 18.7%, US 17.9%, Belgium