Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 2.3 million (1997 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 29%, industry 21%, services 60% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate: 12% (1999); underemployed 30% (1997 est.)
Budget: revenues: $980 million expenditures: $1.15 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products
Industrial production growth rate: 9% (1992 est.)
Electricity - production: 2.904 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 34.44% hydro: 65.56% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 2.742 billion kWh (1998)