power parity?$6,600 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): all countries 25%; developed
countries 2% to 4% typically; developing countries 10% to 60%
typically (1998 est.)
note: national inflation rates vary widely in individual cases, from
stable prices in Japan to hyperinflation in a number of Third World
countries

Labor force: NA

Labor force--by occupation: NA

Unemployment rate: 30% combined unemployment and underemployment
in many non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically
5%-12% unemployment (1998 est.)

Industries: dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in
computers, robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical
equipment; most of these advances take place in OECD nations; only a
small portion of non-OECD countries have succeeded in rapidly
adjusting to these technological forces; the accelerated development
of new industrial (and agricultural) technology is complicating
already grim environmental problems

Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1997 est.)

Electricity--production: 12.3427 trillion kWh (1994)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: NA%
hydro: NA%
nuclear: NA%
other: NA%

Electricity--consumption: 12.3427 trillion kWh (1994)

Exports: $5 trillion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: the whole range of industrial and
agricultural goods and services

Exports--partners: in value, about 75% of exports from the
developed countries

Imports: $5 trillion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: the whole range of industrial and
agricultural goods and services

Imports--partners: in value, about 75% of imports by the developed
countries

Debt--external: $2 trillion for less developed countries (1998
est.)

Economic aid--recipient: traditional worldwide foreign aid $50
billion (1995 est.)

Communications

Telephones: NA

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: NA

Televisions: NA

Transportation

Railways:
total: 1,201,337 km includes about 190,000 to 195,000 km of
electrified routes of which 147,760 km are in Europe, 24,509 km in
the Far East, 11,