Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.6% (1998)
Labor force: 17.4 million (1998 est.)
Labor force—by occupation: agriculture 40%, services, including government 38%, industry 22% (1990 est.)
Unemployment rate: 10% (1998 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $20 billion
expenditures: $20.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $4.4
billion (FY97/98)
Industries: textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals,
petroleum, construction, cement, metals
Industrial production growth rate: 9.4% (1997 est.)
Electricity—production: 46 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 76.09% hydro: 23.91% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 46 billion kWh (1996)