GDP: purchasing power parity-$5.1 billion (1996 est.)
GDP-real growth rate: 3% (1996)
GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$6,500 (1996 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 21% industry: 18% services: 61% (1995 est.)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 3% (1997 est.)
Labor force: total: 235,000 by occupation: subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners 18%, salary earners 15% (1987)
Unemployment rate: 6% (1997 est.)
Budget: revenues: $540.65 million expenditures: $742.65 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries: sugar, tourism, copra, gold, silver, clothing, lumber, small cottage industries
Industrial production growth rate: 2.9% (1995)