Inflation rate - consumer price index: 21.6% (1996)
Labor force: total: 12 million (1990) by occupation: services 46%, agriculture 30%, industry 24% (1990)
Unemployment rate: 11.5% (yearend 1996)
Budget: revenues: $27 billion expenditures: $30 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries: textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds
Industrial production growth rate: 4.5% (1995 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 10,583,700 kW (1995)
Electricity - production: 45.361 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity - consumption per capita: 963 kWh (1995 est.)
Agriculture - products: coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp farming