nment debt burden more
manageable.

GDP:
purchasing power parity - $1.375 trillion (2003 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
-0.2% (2003 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $7,600 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 10.2%
industry: 38.7%
services: 51.2% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
18% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:
22% (1998 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 0.7%
highest 10%: 48% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
60.7 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
14.7% (2003)

Labor force:
82.59 million (2003 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 23%, industry 24%, services 53%

Unemployment rate:
12.3% (2003 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $147.2 billion
expenditures: $172.4 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003)

Public debt:
58.5% of GDP (2003)

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

Industrial production growth rate:
0.4% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
321.2 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
335.9 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
37.19 billion kWh; note - supplied by Paraguay (2001)

Oil - production:
1.561 million bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
2.199 million bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
8.507 billion bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
5.95 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
9.59 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
3.64 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
221.7 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$3.52 billion (2003)

Exports:
$73.28 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, autos

Exports - partners:
US 23%, Argentina 6.1%, China 6%, Netherlands 5.8%, Germany 4.2%
(2003)

Imports:
$48.25 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, electrical and transport equipment, chemical pro