GDP: purchasing power parity - $5.3 billion (2001 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 2.6% (2001 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,450 (2001 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 18% industry: 38% services: 44% (2001)
Population below poverty line: 49.2% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.9% highest 10%: 43.4% (1986-87)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 56 (1986-87)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.9% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 700,000 economically active
Labor force - by occupation: 86% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 35% of the active male wage earners work in South Africa