Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9.6% (2005 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
27% of GDP (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.134 billion
expenditures: $1.358 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2005 est.)

Public debt:
82.3% of GDP (2005 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, rice, corn, tobacco, sesame,
soya, beans; beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products; shrimp,
lobsters

Industries:
food processing, chemicals, machinery and metal products, textiles,
clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear,
wood

Industrial production growth rate:
2.4% (2005 est.)

Electricity - production:
2.887 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 83.9% hydro: 7.7% nuclear: 0% other: 8.4% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.848 billion kWh (2004)