GDP: purchasing power parity-$371.2 billion (1997 est.)
GDP-real growth rate: 3.2% (1997 est.)
GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$5,500 (1997 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 21% industry: 37% services: 42% (1994 est.)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 23% (1996)
Labor force: total: 15.4 million by occupation: agriculture 33%, manufacturing 21% (1988 est.) note: shortage of skilled labor
Unemployment rate: more than 30% (January 1998 est.)
Budget: revenues: $34.6 billion expenditures: $34.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $11.8 billion (FY96/97)
Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil production), metal fabricating, armaments
Industrial production growth rate: 5.7% (FY95/96 est.)