GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $6,400 (2001 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 20% industry: 24% services: 56% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line: 53% (1996 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 13% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 18 million note: shortage of skilled labor (1998)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 30%, industry 25%, services 45% (2001 est.)
Unemployment rate: 14% (1999 est.)
Budget: revenues: $24 billion expenditures: $22 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)
Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil production), metal fabricating, armaments