GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$6,200 (1997 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 5% industry: 37% services: 58% (1995 est.)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 9.7% (1997 est.)
Labor force: total: 14.2 million economically active (1996) by occupation: services 35%, agriculture 30%, industry 20%, mining 9%, other 6%
Unemployment rate: 30% (1997 est.); note-an additional 11% of the workforce is underemployed
Budget: revenues: $30.5 billion expenditures: $38 billion, including capital expenditures of $2.6 billion (FY94/95 est.)
Industries: mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium), automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textile, iron and steel, chemical, fertilizer, foodstuffs
Industrial production growth rate: 1.2% (1996 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 34.566 million kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 163.56 billion kWh (1995)