Unemployment rate:
60% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
58% (2003 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.6% highest 10%: 31.7% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
40.8 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
10.5% (2005 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
35.6% of GDP (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.401 billion
expenditures: $1.542 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2005 est.)

Agriculture - products:
cotton, grain; livestock

Industries:
natural gas, oil, petroleum products, textiles, food processing

Industrial production growth rate:
22% (2003 est.)