GDP: purchasing power parity-$29.1 billion (1997 est.)
GDP-real growth rate: 5.1% (1997)
GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$8,900 (1997 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 10.8% industry: 27.4% services: 61.8% (1995)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 15.2% (1997)
Labor force: total: 1.38 million (1997 est.) by occupation: government 25%, manufacturing 19%, agriculture 11%, commerce 12%, utilities, construction, transport, and communications 12%, other services 21% (1988 est.)
Unemployment rate: 10.3% (December 1997)
Budget: revenues: $4 billion expenditures: $4.3 billion, with capital expenditures of $385 million (1997 est.)
Industries: meat processing, wool and hides, sugar, textiles, footwear, leather apparel, tires, cement, petroleum refining, wine
Industrial production growth rate: 5.6% (1997)