Government type: Parliamentary Monarchy
Capital: Madrid
Administrative divisions:
17 autonomous communities (comunidades autonomas, singular - comunidad autonoma)and 2
autonomous cities* (ciudades autonomas, singular - ciudad autonoma)
National holiday: National Day, 12 October
Constitution: 6 December 1978, effective 29 December 1978
Legal system: Civil law system, with regional applications; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Judicial branch: Supreme Court or Tribunal Supremo
Flag description: Three horizontal bands of red (top), yellow (double width), and red with the national coat of arms on the hoist side of the yellow band; the coat of arms includes the r oyal seal framed by the Pillars of Hercules, which are the two promontories (Gibraltar and Ceuta) on either side of the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $937.6 billion (2004 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 2.6% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita: Purchasing power parity - $23,300 (2004 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
Agriculture: 3.5%
Industry: 28.5%
Services: 68% (2004 est.)
Unemployment rate: 10.4% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed): 25.4% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
Revenues: $383.7 billion
Expenditures: $386.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $12.8 billion (2004 est.)
Public debt: 53.2% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes, sugar beets, citrus; beef, pork, poultry, dairy
products; fish
Industries:
textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures,
chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism, clay and refractory products,
footwear, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment
Exports: $172.5 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods
Exports - partners:
France 19.3%, Germany 11.7%, Portugal 9.6%, UK 9.1%, Italy 9.1% (2004)
Imports: $222 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
Machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods; foodstuffs, consumer goods;
measuring and medical control instruments
Imports - partners: Germany 16.5%, France 15.7%, Italy 8.8%, UK 6.3%, Netherlands 4.8% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $19.7 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external: $771.1 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.33 billion (1999)
Currency (code): euro (EUR)
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001), 1.0854 (2000)
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