r capita (PPP):

$30,900 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 2%
industry: 27%
services: 70.9% (2007 est.)

Labor force:

24.74 million (2007 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 5%
industry: 32%
services: 63% (2001)

Unemployment rate:

6.2% (2007 est.)

Population below poverty line:

NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 2.3%
highest 10%: 26.8% (2000)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

33 (2005)

Investment (gross fixed):

21% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $991.2 billion
expenditures: $1.031 trillion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

104% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

1.8% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

NA

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

10.93% (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:

$3.084 trillion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

fruits, vegetables, grapes, potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain,
olives; beef, dairy products; fish

Industries:

tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing,
textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics

Industrial production growth rate:

0.6% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

292.1 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

316.3 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

2.64 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

48.57 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 78.6%
hydro: 18.4%
nuclear: 0%
other: 3% (2001)

Oil - production:

166,600 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

1.702 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

616,700 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

2.223 million bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

406.5 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

9.706 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

84.89 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natur