The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

(2007 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector:

      agriculture: 3.6% industry: 24.5% services: 71.9% (2007 est.)

      Labor force:

      4.92 million (2007 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

      agriculture: 12% industry: 20% services: 68% (2004 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

      8.3% (2007 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

      NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: 2.5% highest 10%: 26% (2000 est.)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

      33 (2005)

      Investment (gross fixed):

      25.7% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Budget:

      revenues: $115.2 billion expenditures: $124.1 billion (2007 est.)

      Fiscal year:

      calendar year

      Public debt:

      89.5% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      2.9% (2007 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      NA

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      7.71% (31 December 2007)

      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

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $392.4 billion (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      wheat, corn, barley, sugar beets, olives, tomatoes, wine, tobacco, potatoes; beef, dairy products

      Industries:

      tourism, food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal products; mining, petroleum

      Industrial production growth rate:

      2.2% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      59.33 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      55.98 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      269 million kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      5.894 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 94.5% hydro: 3.8% nuclear: 0% other: 1.7% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      4,265 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      441,400 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      125,100 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      527,200 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      10 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      24 million cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      4.069 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      4.1 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      1.982 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

      Current account balance:

      -$44.4 billion (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $23.91 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      food and beverages, manufactured goods, petroleum products, chemicals, textiles

      Exports - partners:

      Germany 11.6%, Italy 10.8%, Cyprus 6.6%, Bulgaria 6.5%, UK 5.5%,

       Romania 4.5%, France 4.2%, US 4.2% (2007)

      Imports:

      $80.79 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      machinery, transport equipment, fuels, chemicals

      Imports - partners:

      Germany 12.9%, Italy 11.7%, Russia 5.6%, France 5.6%, China 5%,

       Netherlands 5% (2007)

      Economic aid - donor:

      $424 million (2006)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $8 billion annually from EU (2000–06); Greece will receive about $3.8 billion per year between 2007–13 under the EU's Community Support Funds IV

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $3.658 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $86.72 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $52.84 billion (2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $30.8 billion (2007 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $145 billion (2005)

      Currency (code):

      euro (EUR)

      Currency code:

      EUR

      Exchange rates:

      euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003)

      Communications

       Greece

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      6.227 million (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      11.997 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: adequate, modern networks reach all areas; good mobile telephone and international service domestic: microwave radio relay trunk system; extensive open-wire connections; submarine cable to offshore islands international: country code - 30; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Europe, Middle East, and Asia; a number of smaller submarine cables provide connectivity to various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Cyprus; tropospheric scatter;