composition by sector:
agriculture: 1%
industry: 24%
services: 74.9% (2005 est.)

Labor force:
4.89 million (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 1.3%
industry: 24.5%
services: 74.2% (2003 est.)

Unemployment rate:
8.1% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
4% (1989 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.2%
highest 10%: 23% (1996)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
25 (1996)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.1% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
19.4% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $195.7 billion
expenditures: $195.5 billion; including capital expenditures of
$1.56 billion (2006 est.)

Public debt:
90.3% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
sugar beets, fresh vegetables, fruits, grain, tobacco; beef, veal,
pork, milk

Industries:
engineering and metal products, motor vehicle assembly,
transportation equipment, scientific instruments, processed food and
beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum

Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
80.22 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 38.4%
hydro: 0.6%
nuclear: 59.3%
other: 1.8% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
82.41 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
6.8 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
14.6 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
10,690 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
641,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
450,000 bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
1.042 million bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
17.06 billion cu m (2004 est.)

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

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

Current account balance:
$6.925 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$335.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, diamonds, metals and metal
products, foodstuffs

Exports - partners:
Germany 19.4%, France 17.3%, Netherlands 11.7%, UK 8.2%, US 6.4%,
Italy 5.3% (2005)

Imports:
$333.5 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, diamonds, pharmaceuticals,
foodstuffs, transportation equipment, oil products

Imports - partners:
Netherlands 17.8%, Germa