GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $8,000 (1996 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture : 10.8% industry: 27.4% services: 61.8% (1995)

Inflation rate - consumer price index: 24.4% (December 1996)

Labor force: total: 1.436 million (1996 est.) by occupation: government 25%, manufacturing 19%, agriculture 11%, commerce 12%, utilities, construction, transport, and communications 12%, other services 21% (1988 est.)

Unemployment rate: 12% (1996 est.)

Budget: revenues: $3.03 billion expenditures : $3.37 billion with capital expenditures of $NA (1994 est.)

Industries: meat processing, wool and hides, sugar, textiles, footwear, leather apparel, tires, cement, petroleum refining, wine

Industrial production growth rate: 3.2% (1996)

Electricity - capacity: 2.142 million kW (1995)

Electricity - production: 6.308 billion kWh (1995)