Unemployment rate: 9.2% (1998)
Budget:
revenues: $1.33 billion
expenditures: $1.27 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1998 est.)
Industries: buses, vans, street and railroad cars, synthetic fibers, agricultural machinery, fertilizers, washing machines, radios, electronics, pharmaceuticals, processed foods, textiles; dependent on imports for energy, raw materials, and intermediate products
Industrial production growth rate: 3% (1998 est.)
Electricity—production: 3.2 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 28.12% hydro: 71.88% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 6.18 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 300 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 3.28 billion kWh (1996)
Agriculture—products: grain, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables; beef, milk, eggs; fish