GDP: purchasing power parity-$7.1 billion (1997 est.)
GDP-real growth rate: 1.1% (1997 est.)
GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$1,070 (1997 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 44% industry: 13% services: 43% (1995)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 17% (1997 est.)
Labor force: total: 3.6 million (1995) by occupation: agriculture 66%, services 25%, industry 9% note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1982)
Unemployment rate: 60% (1996 est.)
Budget: revenues: $284 million expenditures: $308 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY96/97 est.)
Industries: sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, tourism, light assembly industries based on imported parts
Industrial production growth rate: 2.5% (1995 est.)