GDP: purchasing power parity-$3.9 billion (1997 est.)

GDP-real growth rate: 3% (19976 est.)

GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$3,800 (1997 est.)

GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 10% industry: 42% services: 48% (1997 est.)

Inflation rate-consumer price index: 9.5% (1997)

Labor force: total: 135,000 (1996) by occupation: private sector about 70%, public sector about 30%

Unemployment rate: 22% (1995 est.)

Budget: revenues: $400 million expenditures: $450 million, including capital expenditures of $115 million (FY96/97)

Industries: mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates

Industrial production growth rate: 3.7% (FY95/96)