GDP - real growth rate: 1.5% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $5,300 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 10% industry : 16% services: 74% (1995 est.)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 1.3% (1996 est.)
Labor force: total : 1.015 million (1996 est.) by occupation: government and community services 31.8%, agriculture, hunting, and fishing 26.8%, commerce, restaurants, and hotels 16.4%, manufacturing and mining 9.4%, construction 3.2%, transportation and communications 6.2%, finance, insurance, and real estate 4.3% note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor
Unemployment rate: 14% (1996 est.)
Budget: revenues : $1.86 billion expenditures: $1.86 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1995)
Industries: construction, petroleum refining, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling
Industrial production growth rate: 0.4% (1995 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 1.1405 billion kW (1995)