GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 15.3% industry: 43.3% services: 41.4% (2003)
Investment (gross fixed):
34.1% of GDP (2003)
Population below poverty line:
49% (1999)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.9% highest 10%: 43.4%
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
56 (1986-87)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6.1% (2003 est.)
Labor force:
838,000 (2000)
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: $625.4 million
expenditures: $675.2 million, including capital expenditures of $15
million (2003 est.)