Inflation rate (consumer prices): 20% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 11 million (1996 est.) note: labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment (1983 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 80%, industry and commerce 10%, government 6%, unemployed 4%
Unemployment rate: 30% (FY92/93 est.)
Budget: revenues: $1.2 billion expenditures: $1.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1996 est.)
Electricity - production: 1.815 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 44.9% hydro: 55.1% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 1.688 billion kWh (1998)