Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 27% (mid-1997 est.)
Labor force: 11 million (1996 est.) note: labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment (1983 est.)
Labor force—by occupation: agriculture 80%, industry and commerce 10%, government 6%
Unemployment rate: 30% (FY92/93 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $482 million
expenditures: $1.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $30
million (1996)
Industries: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar,
soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1996 est.)
Electricity—production: 1.315 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 27.76% hydro: 72.24% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)