ving standards, education, and health care
remain unsurpassed in Europe. The country has few mineral resources,
but its spectacular natural beauty sustains a substantial tourism
industry.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $148.4 billion (1994
est.)

National product real growth rate: 1.8% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $22,080 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.9% (1994 est.)

Unemployment rate: 4.7% (1994 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $26.7 billion
expenditures: $32 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1994
est.)

Exports: $69.6 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: machinery and equipment, precision instruments, metal
products, foodstuffs, textiles and clothing
partners: Western Europe 63.1% (EU countries 56%, other 7.1%), US
8.8%, Japan 3.4%

Imports: $68.2 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: agricultural products, machinery and transportation
equipment, chemicals, textiles, construction materials
partners: Western Europe 79.2% (EU countries 72.3%, other 6.9%), US
6.4%

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate 0% (1993 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 15,430,000 kW
production: 58 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 6,699 kWh (1993)

Industries: machinery, chemicals, watches, textiles, precision
instruments

Agriculture: dairy farming predominates; less than 50% self-sufficient
in food; must import fish, refined sugar, fats and oils (other than
butter), grains, eggs, fruits, vegetables, meat

Illicit drugs: money-laundering center

Economic aid:
donor: ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $3.5 billion

Currency: 1 Swiss franc, franken, or franco (SwF) = 100 centimes,
rappen, or centesimi

Exchange rates: Swiss francs, franken, or franchi (SwF) per US$1 -
1.2880 (January 1995), 1.3677 (1994), 1.4776 (1993), 1.4062 (1992),
1.4340 (1991), 1.3892 (1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 5,763 km (1,432 km double track)
standard gauge: 3,533 km 1.435-m gauge (99% electrified; 560 km
nongovernment owned)
narrow gauge: 1,094 km 1.000-m gauge (99% electrified; 1,020 km
nongovernment owned)
other: 1,136 km NA-m gauge (1994)

Highways:
total: 71,118 km
paved: 71,118 km (including 1,514 km of expressways)

Inland waterways: 65 km; Rhine (Basel to Rheinfelden, Schaffhausen to
Bodensee); 12 navigable lakes

Pipelines: crude oil