Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.6% highest 10%: 37.6% (1997)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 48.8 (1997)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12.3% (2001)
Labor force: 9.9 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation: services 64%, industry 23%, agriculture 13% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate: 14.1% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $21.5 billion expenditures: $27 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries: petroleum, iron ore mining, construction materials, food processing, textiles, steel, aluminum, motor vehicle assembly
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - production: 80.754 billion kWh (2000)