Population below poverty line: 70% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.3% highest 10%: 31.7% (1990)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.1% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 2.5 million
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services
NA%
Unemployment rate: 11.4% (1997) with widespread underemployment
Budget: revenues: $2.7 billion expenditures: $2.7 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (1998)
Industries: mining, smelting, petroleum, food and beverages, tobacco, handicrafts, clothing
Industrial production growth rate: 4% (1995 est.)
Electricity - production: 2.576 billion kWh (1998)