GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 38% industry: 21% services: 41% (2005 est.)

Labor force: 10.4 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (2004 est.)

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 76% industry: 6% services: 18%

Unemployment rate:
42% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
31% (2003-2004)

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.6% highest 10%: 39.1% (2003-2004)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
37.7 (FY04/05)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7.8% (October 2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.153 billion
expenditures: $1.789 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY05/06)

Agriculture - products:
rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat