GDP - real growth rate: 4% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $860 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 33% industry : 17% services: 50% (1992 est.)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 133% (1996 est.)
Labor force: total: 11 million (1996 est.) by occupation: agriculture 80%, industry and commerce 10%, government 6% note: labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment (1983 est.)
Unemployment rate: 30% (FY92/93 est.)
Budget: revenues: $382 million expenditures: $1.06 billion, including capital expenditures of $91 million (1995 est.)
Industries: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining
Industrial production growth rate: 6.8% (FY92/93 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 500,000 kW (1994)