GDP (purchasing power parity):
$5.892 billion (2004 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3.3% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,200 (2004 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 15.2% industry: 43.9% services: 40.9% (2004 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)
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)