_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12.7% (1990 est.)
_#_Unemployment rate: 9.3% (1990 est.)
_#_Budget: $7.2 billion; expenditures $8.12 billion, including capital expenditures of $0.97 billion (1989 est.)
_#_Exports: revenues $8.1 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.);
commodities—electrical equipment 19%, textiles 16%, minerals and ores 11%, farm products 10%, coconut 10%, chemicals 5%, fish 5%, forest products 4%;
partners—US 36%, EC 19%, Japan 18%, ESCAP 9%, ASEAN 7%
_#_Imports: $12.1 billion (c.i.f., 1990 est.);
commodities—raw materials 53%, capital goods 17%, petroleum products 17%;
partners—US 25%, Japan 17%, ESCAP 13%, EC 11%, ASEAN 10%, Middle East 10%
_#_External debt: $28.4 billion (1990)