GDP: purchasing power parity - $8.3 billion (1996 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 9% (1996 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $800 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12% industry: 56% services: 32% (1994 est.)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 1,700% (1996 est.)
Labor force: total: 2.783 million economically active by occupation: agriculture 85%, industry 15% (1985 est.)
Unemployment rate: extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population (1994 est.)
Budget: revenues: $928 million expenditures: $2.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $963 million (1992 est.)
Industries: petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing; food processing; brewing; tobacco products; sugar; textiles;
Industrial production growth rate: NA%