Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.4% (2003 est.)
Labor force:
6.64 million 68% agricultural (2003)
Unemployment rate:
13% in urban areas (1998)
Budget:
revenues: $2.339 billion
expenditures: $2.749 billion, including capital expenditures of $420
million (2003 est.)
Public debt:
82.5% of GDP (2003)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc
(tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber
Industries:
foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus
assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity
Industrial production growth rate:
15% (1998 est.)
Electricity - production:
4.605 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
2.983 billion kWh (2001)