Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.8% highest 10%: 36.6% (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 38.6 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 24%, industry 21%, services 55% (1997)
Unemployment rate: 2.5% urban (1998); plus considerable underemployment
Budget: revenues: $117 billion expenditures: $123 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: 4% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 176.055 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 78.12% hydro: 13.82% nuclear: 5% other: 3.06% (1998)