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2018 or latest available year (OECD values in parentheses)a

PEOPLE AND SOCIETY

Population (million)

1.9

(1 300)

Population density per km2

29.9

(35.5)

Share of population by type of region:

Population compound annual growth rate, latest 5 years

-1.1

(0.6)

Predominantly urban (%)

51.6

(47.5)

Income inequality (Gini coefficient)

0.35

(0.32)

Intermediate (%)

26.5

(27.4)

Poverty rate (% of pop. with less than 50% median income)

74.7

(80.8)

Rural (%)

21.9

(25.1)

Life expectancy

ECONOMY AND EXTERNAL ACCOUNTS

Total GDP (National currency, billion)

29

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)

59.2

(28.9)

Total GDP (USD, billion, current prices and PPPs)

59

(60 068)

Main exports (% of total merchandise exports)

GDP compound annual real growth rate, latest 5 years

3.2

(2.3)

Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

18.2

GDP per capita (1 000 USD current PPPs)

30.5

(46.2)

Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof;

10.2

Value added shares (%)

Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

8.0

Agriculture

3.9

(1.7)

Main imports (% of total merchandise imports)

Industry including construction

22.4

(24.9)

Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

11.7

Services

73.7

(73.4)

Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof

10.2

Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)

58.6

(29.4)

Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

9.1

GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Percentage of GDP

Expenditure

37.8

(40.4)

Education expenditure

5.4

(5.1)

Revenue

36.4

(38.1)

Health expenditure

3.7

(7.7)

Gross financial debt

48.0

(110.4)

Environment protection expenditure

0.5

(0.5)

Fiscal balance

-0.6

-(2.3)

Environmental taxes: (% of GDP)

3.8

(1.6)

 

(% of total tax revenue)

12.6

(5.3)

LABOUR MARKET, SKILLS AND INNOVATION

Unemployment rate (% of civilian labour force)

8.7

(5.8)

Patent applications in environment-related technologies (% of all technologies, average of latest 3 years b

13.2

(9.5)

Tertiary educational attainment of 25-64 year-olds (%)

33.9

(36.9)

Environmental management

8.0

(4.2)

Gross expenditure on R&D, % of GDP

0.5

(2.4)

Water-related adaptation technologies

0.0

(0.5)

 

 

 

Climate change mitigation technologies

9.7

(7.1)

ENVIRONMENT

Energy intensity: TPES per capita (toe/cap.)

2.4

(4.1)

Road vehicle stock (vehicles./100 inhabitants)

39.5

TPES per GDP (toe/1 000 USD, 2010 PPPs)

0.1

(0.1)

Water stress (abstraction as % of available resources)

0.7

(9.7)

Renewables (% of TPES)

40.4

(10.2)

Water abstraction per capita (m3/cap./year)

114

(804)

Carbon intensity (energy-related CO2):

Municipal waste per capita, (kg/capita)

436

(524)

Emissions per capita (t/cap.)

3.5

(9.0)

Material productivity (USD, 2010 PPPs/DMC, kg)

1.1

(2.4)

Emissions per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 010 PPP)

0.15

(0.24)

Land area (1 000 km2)

62

(34 476)

GHG intensity: c

% of arable land and permanent crops

20.8

(12.0)

Emissions per capita (t/cap.)

5.7

(12.0)

% of permanent meadows and pastures

10.2

(22.4)

Emissions per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 2010 PPP)

0.25

(0.31)

% of forest area

54.0

(31.4)

Mean population exposure to air pollution (PM2.5), µg/m3

14.1

(12.5)

% of other land (built-up and other land)

15.0

(34.3)

a. Values earlier than 2013 are not taken into consideration. OECD value: where the OECD aggregate is not provided in the source database, a simple OECD average of the latest available data is calculated where data exist for a significant number of countries.

b. Higher-value inventions that have sought protection in at least two jurisdictions. Average of the latest 3 years.

c. Excluding emissions/removals from land use, land-use change and forestry.

Source: Calculations based on data extracted from databases of the OECD, IEA/OECD, EUROSTAT and the World Bank.

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