Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.3% highest 10%: 22.1% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.2% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 1.4 million (1997)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture and forestry 16%, industry 41%, services 43% (1990)
Unemployment rate: 9.6% (1999 est.)
Budget: revenues: $1.33 billion expenditures: $1.27 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: buses, vans, street and railroad cars, synthetic fibers, agricultural machinery, fertilizers, washing machines, radios, electronics, pharmaceuticals, processed foods, textiles; dependent on imports for energy, raw materials, and intermediate products
Industrial production growth rate: -5% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 4.766 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 29.58% hydro: 70.42% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998)