Unemployment rate: 4.5% (1998 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $24 billion
expenditures: $25 billion, including capital expenditures of $8
billion (FY96/97)
Industries: tourism; textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, such as jewelry; electric appliances and components, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer
Industrial production growth rate: -10% (1998)
Electricity—production: 82 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 91.46% hydro: 8.54% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 82.561 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 79 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 640 million kWh (1996)
Agriculture—products: rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans