Population below poverty line: 86% (1993 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.5% highest 10%: 31.3% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 27.4% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 3.4 million
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 85%, industry 6%, services 9%
Unemployment rate: 25% (1998)
Budget: revenues: $606 million expenditures: $547 million, including capital expenditures of $61 million (1998 est.)
Industries: copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer
Industrial production growth rate: -4% (1998)
Electricity - production: 8.16 billion kWh (1998)