Inflation rate (consumer prices): 21% (1998 est.)

Labor force: NA

Labor force—by occupation: population mainly engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing note: there are shortages of skilled workers

Unemployment rate: 50% in the formal business sector (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $58 million
expenditures: $114 million, including capital expenditures of $54
million (1993 est.)

Industries: light construction, textiles, soap, beer; fish
processing; timber

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity—production: 15 million kWh (1996)

Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 46.67% hydro: 53.33% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)

Electricity—consumption: 15 million kWh (1996)