GDP: purchasing power parity—$343.9 billion (1997 est.)

GDP—real growth rate: 3.25% (1997)

GDP—per capita: purchasing power parity—$22 000 (1997 est.)

GDP—composition by sector:
agriculture: 4%
industry: 18%
services: 78% (1996)

Inflation rate—consumer price index: 2% (1997)

Labor force:
total: 6.6 million (1997)
by occupation: services 75% manufacturing and construction 23% agriculture 2% (1996)

Unemployment rate: 6.9% (1997)

Budget:
revenues: $103.4 billion
expenditures: $112.5 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 draft)

Industries: agroindustries metal and engineering products electrical machinery and equipment chemicals petroleum fishing construction microelectronics

Industrial production growth rate: 3.75% (1997)

Electricity—capacity: 20.09 million kW (1996 est.)

Electricity—production: 82 billion kWh (1996 est.)

Electricity—consumption per capita: 4 968 kWh (1996 est.)

Agriculture—products: grains potatoes sugar beets fruits vegetables; livestock

Exports:
total value: $203.1 billion (f.o.b. 1997)
commodities: manufactures and machinery chemicals; processed food and tobacco agricultural products
partners: EU 80% (Germany 29% Belgium-Luxembourg 13% UK 10%) Central and Eastern Europe 4% US 3% (1996)

Imports:
total value: $1.791 trillion (c.i.f. 1997)
commodities: raw materials and semifinished products consumer goods transportation equipment crude oil food products
partners: EU 64% (Germany 22% Belgium-Luxembourg 11% UK 10%) Central and Eastern Europe 4% US 8% (1996)

Debt—external: $0

Economic aid:
donor: ODA $2.9 billion (1997)

Currency: 1 Netherlands guilder gulden or florin (f.) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Netherlands guilders gulden or florins (f.) per US$1—2.0462 (January 1998) 1.9513 (1997) 1.6859 (1996) 1.6057 (1995) 1.8200 (1994) 1.8573 (1993)

Fiscal year: calendar year