Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% (1990)
Labor force: 160,000
Labor force—by occupation: agriculture 10%, industry 17%, services 73% (1997)
Unemployment rate: 24% (1997)
Budget:
revenues: $775 million
expenditures: $2.15 billion, including capital expenditures of $118
million (1996)
Industries: construction, rum, cement, oil refining, sugar,
tourism
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity—production: 855 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 855 million kWh (1996)