GDP: purchasing power parity-$8.1 billion (1997 est.)

GDP-real growth rate: 11.8% (1997 est.)

GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$1,570 (1997 est.)

GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 29% industry: 16% services: 55% (1997 est.)

Inflation rate-consumer price index: 7.1% (1997 est.)

Labor force: total: 2.2 million (1996) by occupation: industry and construction 31%, agriculture and forestry 25%, other 44% (1990)

Unemployment rate: 16% (1996 est.)

Budget: revenues: $441 million expenditures: $606 million, including capital expenditures of $54 million (1996 est.)

Industries: steel, aircraft, machine tools, foundry equipment, electric locomotives, tower cranes, electric welding equipment, machinery for food preparation and meat packing, electric motors, process control equipment, trucks, tractors, textiles, shoes, chemicals, wood products, wine

Industrial production growth rate: 8.1% (1997 est.)