GDP - per capita (PPP):

$7,400 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 11.5%
industry: 36%
services: 52.5% (2007 est.)

Labor force:

20.5 million (2007 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 22.7%
industry: 18.7%
services: 58.5% (2000 est.)

Unemployment rate:

11.2% (2007 est.)

Population below poverty line:

49.2% (2005)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 7.9%
highest 10%: 34.3% (2004)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

53.8 (2005)

Investment (gross fixed):

22.5% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $63.69 billion
expenditures: $64.96 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

52.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

5.5% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

11.5% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

15.38% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$21.81 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$27.25 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$85.34 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa
beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp

Industries:

textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages,
chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds

Industrial production growth rate:

9.8% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

51.83 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

39.58 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

876.7 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

39.4 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 26%
hydro: 72.7%
nuclear: 0%
other: 1.3% (2001)

Oil - production:

550,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - consumption:

265,400 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

276,100 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

12,480 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

1.506 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

7.22 billion cu m (2006 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

7.22 billion cu m (2006 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

122.9 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

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