Inflation rate-consumer price index: 0% (1997 est.)
Labor force: 7 million by occupation: government 40%, industry, construction, and oil 25%, services 30%, agriculture 5% note: 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget: revenues: $47.5 billion expenditures: $52.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: crude oil production, petroleum refining, basic petrochemicals, cement, two small steel-rolling mills, construction, fertilizer, plastics
Industrial production growth rate: 16% (1996 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 20.9 million kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 65 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 3,470 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: wheat, barley, tomatoes, melons, dates, citrus; mutton, chickens, eggs, milk