Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
NA (October 2000)

Unemployment rate:
30% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $708.5 million
expenditures: $317.6 million, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003 est.)

Agriculture - products: coffee, cocoa, rice, yams, cassava (tapioca), bananas, palm oil nuts; livestock; timber

Industries:
petroleum, fishing, sawmilling, natural gas

Industrial production growth rate:
30% (2002 est.)

Electricity - production:
23.56 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
21.91 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)