Inflation rate-consumer price index: 27.7% (1997 est.)
Labor force: total: NA by occupation: agriculture and fishing 61%, industry 10%, services 29% (1996 est.)
Unemployment rate: 20% (1997 est.)
Budget: revenues: $1.39 billion expenditures: $1.47 billion, including capital expenditures of $370 million (1996 est.)
Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing
Industrial production growth rate: 4.2% (1996 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 1.3 million kW (1997)
Electricity-production: 600 million kWh (1996)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 373 kWh (1996)
Agriculture-products: cocoa, rice, coffee, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber