ansfers from the west
of roughly $100 billion a year.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$1.813 trillion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 2.7% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$22,100 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.1%
industry: 33.1%
services: 65.8% (1998)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.9% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 38.2 million (1998)

Labor force--by occupation: industry 33.7%, agriculture 2.7%,
services 63.6% (1998)

Unemployment rate: 10.6% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $977 billion
expenditures: $1.024 trillion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1998 est.)

Industries: western: among world's largest and technologically
advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals,
machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages;
eastern: metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding,
machine building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum refining

Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1998)

Electricity--production: 515.058 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 66.23%
hydro: 3.5%
nuclear: 29.81%
other: 0.46% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 509.458 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 42.5 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 36.9 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: western?potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar
beets, fruit, cabbages; cattle, pigs, poultry; eastern--wheat, rye,
barley, potatoes, sugar beets, fruit; pork, beef, chickens, milk,
hides

Exports: $510 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: machinery 31%, vehicles 17%, chemicals 13%,
metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles (1997)

Exports--partners: EU 55.5% (France 10.7%, UK 8.5%, Italy 7.4%,
Netherlands 7.0%, Belgium-Luxembourg 5.8%), US 8.6%, Japan 2.3%
(1997 est.)

Imports: $426 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: machinery 22%, vehicles 10%, chemicals 9%,
foodstuffs 8%, textiles, metals (1997)

Imports--partners: EU 54.3% (France 10.5%, Netherlands 8.5%, Italy
7.8%, UK 7.0%, Belgium-Luxembourg 6.2%), US 7.7%, Japan 4.9% (1997)

Debt--external: $NA

Economic aid--donor: ODA, $7.5 billion (1995)

Currency: 1 deutsche mark (DM) = 100 pfennige

Exchange rates: deutsche marks (DM) per US$1--1.69 (January 1999),
1.7597 (1998), 1.7341 (1997), 1.5048 (1996), 1.4331 (1995),