Unemployment rate:
9.6% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
31% (2005)

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.7% highest 10%: 31.27% (2002)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
56.7 (2005)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.2% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
20.2% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $140.6 billion
expenditures: $172.4 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2004)

Public debt:
50.7% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef

Industries:
textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel,
aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment