ge rate):
$2.212 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
2% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$5,200 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 11.8%
industry: 51.4%
services: 36.8% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
155,700 (2003)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Unemployment rate:
40% (2005 est.)

Population below poverty line:
69% (2005)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1%
highest 10%: 50.2% (1995)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.1% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
15.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $921.8 million
expenditures: $1.019 billion; including capital expenditures of $147
million (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
sugarcane, cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus, pineapples,
sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep

Industries:
mining (coal, raw asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink
concentrates, textile and apparel

Industrial production growth rate:
3.7% (FY95/96)

Electricity - production:
458 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 58%
hydro: 42%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.123 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
697 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2004)

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

Oil - consumption:
3,500 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2004)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2004)

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

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

Current account balance:
$-23.13 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$2.201 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp, cotton yarn,
refrigerators, citrus and canned fruit

Exports - partners:
South Africa 59.7%, EU 8.8%, US 8.8%, Mozambique 6.2% (2004)

Imports:
$2.274 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs,
petroleum products, chemicals

Imports - partners:
South Africa 95.6%, EU 0.9%, Japan 0.9%, Singapore 0.3% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$228.5 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$357 million (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$104 million (2001)

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