ors, improve employment opportunities, and
alleviate poverty. Longer-term fiscal stability will require more
sustainable revenue sources, rather than non-recurring revenues from
privatization.

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$300.1 billion (2007 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):

$144.1 billion (2007 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

7.3% (2007 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

$3,200 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 13.8%
industry: 31.7%
services: 54.5% (2007 est.)

Labor force:

36.22 million (2007 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 35%
industry: 15%
services: 50% (2007 est.)

Unemployment rate:

7.3% (2007 est.)

Population below poverty line:

30% (2003 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 2.4%
highest 10%: 31.2% (2006)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

45.8 (2006)

Investment (gross fixed):

14.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $24.63 billion
expenditures: $24.9 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

55.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

2.8% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

4.28% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

8.69% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$21.27 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$65.85 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$65.66 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

sugarcane, coconuts, rice, corn, bananas, cassavas, pineapples,
mangoes; pork, eggs, beef; fish

Industries:

electronics assembly, garments, footwear, pharmaceuticals,
chemicals, wood products, food processing, petroleum refining,
fishing

Industrial production growth rate:

7.1% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

56.51 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

47.04 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 55.6%
hydro: 17.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 26.9% (2001)

Oil - production:

23,930 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

340,100 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

41,160 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

355,800 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

138.5 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

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