Unemployment rate:
2.4% (2005 est.)
Population below poverty line:
34% (2005 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.2% highest 10%: 30.6% (1997)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
37 (1997)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7% (2005 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $319.3 million
expenditures: $434.6 million; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2005 est.)
Agriculture - products:
sweet potatoes, vegetables, corn, coffee, sugarcane, tobacco,
cotton, tea, peanuts, rice; water buffalo, pigs, cattle, poultry
Industries:
copper, tin, and gypsum mining; timber, electric power,
agricultural processing, construction, garments, tourism, cement
Industrial production growth rate:
13% (2005 est.)
Electricity - production:
3.767 billion kWh (2003)