GDP - real growth rate: 3.5% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $880 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture : 33% industry: 15% services: 52% (1996 est.)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 47% (1995 est.)
Labor force: total: 4.9 million by occupation : agriculture 45,500, domestic service 29,750, industry 26,250, commerce 24,500, construction 19,250, service 15,750, transportation 10,500, other 3,500 (1985 est.) note: 175,000 workers (3.6% of the total work force) earn money wages; 4,725,000 workers receive no monetary wage (of these, 91% are engaged in subsistence agriculture)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget: revenues : $250 million expenditures: $265 million, including capital expenditures of $180 million (1991 est.)
Industries: meat processing, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: 3.8% (1993 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 208,000 kW (1991)