GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 26.3% industry: 20.7% services: 53% (1995)

Inflation rate - consumer price index: 8.2% (December 1996)

Labor force: total: 1.8 million (1995 est.) by occupation: agriculture 45%

Unemployment rate: 5.3% (urban) (1995)

Budget: revenues : $1.25 billion (1995 est.) expenditures: $1.66 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1995 est.)

Industries: meat packing, oilseed crushing, milling, brewing, textiles, other light consumer goods, cement, construction

Industrial production growth rate: 1.3% (1995 est.)

Electricity - capacity: 6,927,500 kW (1995)

Electricity - production: 41.625 billion kWh (1995) note: exported about 37.9 million kW of electricity

Electricity - consumption per capita: 616 kWh (1995 est.)