GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 2% industry: 45% services: 53% (1995 est.)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 3.4% (1996)
Labor force: total: 404,500 by occupation: construction and utilities 13%, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14%, agriculture 11%, services 62% (1993 est.)
Unemployment rate: 16.1% (December 1996)
Budget: revenues: $1.7 billion expenditures: $1.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $243 million (1997 est.)
Industries: petroleum, chemicals, tourism, food processing, cement, beverage, cotton textiles
Industrial production growth rate: 7.5% (1995)
Electricity-capacity: 1.15 million kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 3.9 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 3,068 kWh (1995)