Population below poverty line:
50% (2000 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.1% highest 10%: 45.9% (1994)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
59.3 (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5% (2006 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
17.1% of GDP (2006 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $72.15 billion
expenditures: $75.93 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)
Public debt:
32.9% of GDP (2006 est.)
Agriculture - products:
corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; beef, poultry, mutton,
wool, dairy products
Industries:
mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium),
automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textiles, iron and
steel, chemicals, fertilizer, foodstuffs, commercial ship repair
Industrial production growth rate:
7.1% (2006 est.)