Budget:
revenues: $4 billion
expenditures: $4.3 billion, with capital expenditures of $385
million (1997 est.)
Industries: meat processing, wool and hides, sugar, textiles,
footwear, leather apparel, tires, cement, petroleum refining, wine
Industrial production growth rate: 5.6% (1997)
Electricity—production: 8.35 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 10.18% hydro: 89.82% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 8.223 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 437 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 310 million kWh (1996)
Agriculture—products: wheat, rice, corn, sorghum; livestock; fish
Exports: $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1997)