_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.1% (1990 est.)

_#_Unemployment: 11.7% (1989)

_#_Budget: revenues $1.03 billion; expenditures $1.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $275 million (1990)

_#_Exports: $300 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities—pharmaceuticals, cement, rum, crawfish;

partners—US 41%, Norway 30%, Denmark 4%

_#_Imports: $1.23 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities—foodstuffs, manufactured goods, mineral fuels;

partners—US 35%, Nigeria 21%, Japan 13%, Angola 11%

_#_External debt: $1.2 billion (December 1990)