Unemployment rate:
40% (2002 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $502 million
expenditures: $520 million, including capital expenditures of $86
million (2002 est.)
Industries:
aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers, cement, vegetable
oil, metal-cutting machine tools, refrigerators and freezers
Industrial production growth rate:
10.3% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
14.18 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 1.9% hydro: 98.1% other: 0% (2001) nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption:
14.52 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
3.909 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
5.242 billion kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
250 bbl/day (2001 est.)