Investment (gross fixed):
15.5% of GDP (2006 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $921.8 million
expenditures: $1.019 billion; including capital expenditures of $147
million (2006 est.)
Agriculture - products:
sugarcane, cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus, pineapples,
sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep
Industries:
mining (coal, raw asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink
concentrates, textile and apparel
Industrial production growth rate:
3.7% (FY95/96)
Electricity - production:
458 million kWh (2004)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 58% hydro: 42% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.123 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)
Electricity - imports:
697 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2004)