(purchasing power parity):
$11.51 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$5.806 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
6% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$1,000 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 19.9%
industry: 28.9%
services: 51.2% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
4.903 million (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 85%
industry: 6%
services: 9%

Unemployment rate:
50% (2000 est.)

Population below poverty line:
86% (1993)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.1%
highest 10%: 41% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
52.6 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
8.8% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
26.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.674 billion
expenditures: $2.99 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
65.7% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables, flowers,
tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), coffee; cattle,
goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides

Industries:
copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages,
chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture

Industrial production growth rate:
10.1% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
9.962 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.5%
hydro: 99.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
6.692 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
2.975 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
403 million kWh (2004)

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

Oil - consumption:
13,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

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

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

Current account balance:
$-165.4 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$3.928 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
copper/cobalt 64%, cobalt, electricity; tobacco, flowers, cotton

Exports - partners:
Switzerland 28.7%, South Africa 18.6%, UK 14.4%, Democratic
Republic of the Congo 5.4%, Tanzania 5.1%, Zimbabwe 4.1% (2005)

Imports:
$3.092 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products,
electricity