Unemployment rate:
34% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $448 million
expenditures: $506.9 million, including capital expenditures of $147
million (FY 01/02)
Industries:
mining (coal), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates, textile
and apparel
Industrial production growth rate:
3.7% (FY 95/96)
Electricity - production:
348.3 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 58% hydro: 42% other: 0% (2001) nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption:
962.9 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
639 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)