on foreign grants, reducing
the budget deficit, and creating investment incentives to promote
job creation.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$28.89 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$12.32 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
4.6% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$4,900 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 3.6%
industry: 30.5%
services: 65.9% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
1.512 million (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 5%
industry: 12.5%
services: 82.5% (2001 est.)

Unemployment rate:
15% official rate; unofficial rate is approximately 30% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
30% (2001 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.3%
highest 10%: 29.8% (1997)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
36.4 (1997)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.6% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
24.8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $4.191 billion
expenditures: $5.305 billion; including capital expenditures of
$1.092 billion (2006 est.)

Public debt:
79.9% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wheat, barley, citrus, tomatoes, melons, olives; sheep, goats,
poultry

Industries:
textiles, phosphate mining, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, petroleum
refining, cement, potash, inorganic chemicals, light manufacturing,
tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
6% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
8.431 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 99.4%
hydro: 0.6%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
8.387 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
4 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
550 million kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
107,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - imports:
100,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - proved reserves:
445,000 bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
310 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
1.41 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
1.1 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
6.23 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$-2.834 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$4.798 billion f.o.b