commerce: 15.9%
finance, insurance, and business services: 14.5%
transport and communications: 6.9%
public services: 32.7% (2008)
Unemployment rate:
7.9% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 85 8.2% (2009 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.6%
highest 10%: 24.7% (2007)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
29.5 (2007) country comparison to the world: 115 25.6 (1991)
Investment (gross fixed):
18.7% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 100
Public debt:
45.4% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 59 40.3% of GDP (2009 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.1% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 21 0% (2009 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
1.75% (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 114 3% (31 December 2008)
note: this is the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks in the euro area
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
3.51% (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 141 5.79% (31 December 2008 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$108 billion (31 December 2010 est) country comparison to the world: 29 $110.4 billion (31 December 2009 est)
note: see entry for the European Union for money supply in the euro area; the European Central Bank (ECB) controls monetary policy for the 16 members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); individual members of the EMU do not control the quantity of money circulating within their own borders
Stock of broad money:
$160.4 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 44 $168.5 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$259.2 billion (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 36 $241.6 billion (31 December 2008 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$91.02 billion (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 27 $154.4 billion (31 December 2008)
$369.2 billion (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
barley, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; fish
Industries:
metals and metal products, electronics, machinery and scientific instruments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing
Industrial production growth rate:
6% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 51
Electricity - production:
77.44 billion kWh (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 38
Electricity - consumption:
87.25 billion kWh (2008) country comparison to the world: 32
Electricity - exports:
3.335 billion kWh (2008)
Electricity - imports:
16.11 billion kWh (2008)
Oil - production:
8,718 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 86
Oil - consumption:
206,200 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 55
Oil - exports:
130,500 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 61
Oil - imports:
337,900 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 31
Oil - proved reserves:
NA bbl (1 January 2010 est.)
Natural gas - production:
NA (2008 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
4.289 billion cu m (2009) country comparison to the world: 63
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 178
Natural gas - imports:
4.289 billion cu m (2009) country comparison to the world: 34
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 178
Current account balance:
$4.696 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 32 $3.444 billion (2009 est.)
Exports:
$73.53 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 40 $62.69 billion (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:
electrical and optical equipment, machinery, transport equipment, paper and pulp, chemicals, basic metals; timber
Exports - partners:
Germany 10.32%, Sweden 9.79%, Russia 9%, US 7.85%, Netherlands 5.9%,
UK 5.24%, China 4.1% (2009)
Imports:
$69.11 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 39 $57.68 billion (2009 est.)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment,
