ilver spurred growth in 2003-06.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$15.04 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$5.304 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
4.1% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$7,400 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 11.8%
industry: 30.2%
services: 58.1% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
653,000 (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 47%
industry: 20%
services: 33% (1999 est.)

Unemployment rate:
5.3% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
the UNDP's 2005 Human Development Report indicated that 34.9% of
the population live on $1 per day and 55.8% live on $2 per day

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 0.5%
highest 10%: 64.5%

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
70.7 (2003)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
25% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.233 billion
expenditures: $2.214 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
31.6% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
millet, sorghum, peanuts, grapes; livestock; fish

Industries:
meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products; mining (diamonds,
lead, zinc, tin, silver, tungsten, uranium, copper)

Industrial production growth rate:
NA%

Electricity - production:
1.397 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
NA

Electricity - consumption:
2.819 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
80 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
1.6 billion kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2004)

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

Oil - consumption:
18,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
12,770 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2002)

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$572 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$2.321 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium; cattle, processed
fish, karakul skins

Exports - partners:
South Africa 33.4%, US 4% (2004)

Imports:
$2.456 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs; pet