NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 3.5% highest 10%: 23.8% (2000)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

26 (2005)

Investment (gross fixed):

20.2% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $19.78 billion expenditures: $18.9 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

6.4% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

2.3% (2007 est.)

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:

$357.9 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

wine, grapes, barley, oats, potatoes, wheat, fruits; dairy products, livestock products

Industries:

banking and financial services, iron and steel, information technology, telecommunications, cargo transportation, food processing, chemicals, metal products, engineering, tires, glass, aluminum, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:

1.7% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

3.01 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

6.748 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

2.887 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

6.847 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 57.3% hydro: 25.2% nuclear: 0% other: 17.5% (2001)

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

60,640 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

281.5 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

63,760 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

1.329 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

1.329 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

Current account balance:

$4.921 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$18.42 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

machinery and equipment, steel products, chemicals, rubber products, glass

Exports - partners:

Germany 21.1%, France 16.3%, Belgium 10.1%, Italy 7.4%, UK 7.1%,
Netherlands 5.4%, Spain 5% (2007)

Imports:

$23.13 billion c.i.f. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

minerals, metals, foodstuffs, quality consumer goods

Imports - partners:

Belgium 27.4%, Germany 23.8%, China 17.1%, France 9.2%, Netherlands 5% (2007)

Economic aid - donor:

ODA, $291 million (2006)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$205.5 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external: