Distribution of family income - Gini index:
21.7 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
42.8% (2002 est.)

Labor force:
4.8 million (2000)

Labor force - by occupation:
industry and construction NA%, agriculture and forestry NA%,
services NA%

Unemployment rate:
2.1% officially registered unemployed (December 2000); large number
of underemployed workers

Budget:
revenues: $4 billion
expenditures: $4.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $180
million (1997 est.)

Industries:
metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earthmovers,
motorcycles, television sets, chemical fibers, fertilizer, textiles,
radios, refrigerators

Industrial production growth rate:
2.5% (2002 est.)

Electricity - production:
24.4 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 99.5% hydro: 0.1% other: 0.4% (2001) nuclear: 0%