Inflation rate (consumer prices):
10% (2002 est.)

Labor force:
838,000

Labor force - by occupation: 86% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 35% of the active male wage earners work in South Africa

Unemployment rate:
45% (2002)

Budget:
revenues: $76 million
expenditures: $80 million, including capital expenditures of $15
million (FY 99/00 est.)

Industries:
food, beverages, textiles, apparel assembly, handicrafts;
construction; tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
15.5% (1999)

Electricity - production:
0 kWh NA kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
40 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)