Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8% highest 10%: 30.5% (1990-91)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2%-3% (1998 est.)
Labor force: 11 million (1997 est.)
Labor force—by occupation: agriculture 50%, services 26%, industry 15%, other 9% (1985)
Unemployment rate: 19% (1998 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $8.4 billion
expenditures: $10 billion, including capital expenditures of $1.8
billion (FY97/98 est.)
Industries: phosphate rock mining and processing, food
processing, leather goods, textiles, construction, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: 4.1% (1997 est.)
Electricity—production: 11.5 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 95.65% hydro: 4.35% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)