GDP: purchasing power parity - $72.9 billion (1996 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.4% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $23,800 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2% industry: 43% services : 55% (1994 est.)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 5.2% (1996 est.)
Labor force: total: 794,400 (1993 est.) by occupation: industry and commerce 56%, services 38%, agriculture 6% (1990 est.) note: 75.73% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1997 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget: revenues: $5.1 billion expenditures: $5.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries: petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling
Industrial production growth rate: NA%