Labor force: NA
Unemployment rate: 12% (1992 est.)
Budget: revenues: $278 million expenditures: $299 million, including capital expenditures of $133 million (1996 est.)
Industries: bauxite, sugar, rice milling, timber, fishing (shrimp), textiles, gold mining
Industrial production growth rate: 5.6% (1994 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 114,000 kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 230 million kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 339 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: sugar, rice, wheat, vegetable oils; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; development potential exists for fishing and forestry
Exports: total value: $546 million (f.o.b., 1996) commodities: sugar, gold, bauxite/alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses partners: Canada 33%, US 24%, UK 22% (1994 est.)