GDP: purchasing power parity - $4.45 billion (1996 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 6% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $970 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 35% industry: 23% services: 42% (1995 est.)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 7.2% (1995 est.)
Labor force: total: 1.538 million (1993 est.) by occupation: agriculture 64%, industry 9%, services 21%, unemployed 6% (1981 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget: revenues: $242 million expenditures: $262 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement; handicrafts, textiles, beverages
Industrial production growth rate: NA%