Labor force: 11.9 million (1998 est.)
Labor force—by occupation: agriculture and forestry 44%, industry
20%, services 36% (1995)
Unemployment rate: 5% plus another 10% underemployed (December
1996 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $4.4 billion
expenditures: $4.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $1.1
billion (1997 est.)
Industries: textiles, food processing, machine building,
metallurgy, natural gas
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1998)
Electricity—production: 47.9 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 84.18% hydro: 15.82% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 43.885 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 5.6 billion kWh (1996)