GDP composition by sector: agriculture: NEGL% industry: 28% services: 72%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.7% (1995)
Labor force: 1.649 million (1994) by occupation: financial, business, and other services 33.5%, manufacturing 25.6%, commerce 22.9%, construction 6.6%, other 11.4% (1994)
Unemployment rate: 2.6% (1995 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $17.3 billion
expenditures: $12.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $4.5
billion (FY95/96 est.)
Industries: petroleum refining, electronics, oil drilling
equipment, rubber processing and rubber products, processed food and
beverages, ship repair, entrepot trade, financial services,
biotechnology
Industrial production growth rate: 10% (1995)
Electricity: capacity: 4,510,000 kW production: 17 billion kWh consumption per capita: 5,590 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: rubber, copra, fruit, vegetables; poultry
Illicit drugs: transit point for Golden Triangle heroin going to the US, Western Europe, and the Third World; also a money-laundering center