Economy of Paraguay - Statistics

Statistics

GDP (purchasing power parity): $30.9 billion (2005 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate): $7.586 billion (2005 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 3.3% (2005 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $4,900 (2005 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

• agriculture: 27.5%
• industry: 24%
• services: 48.5% (2005 est.)

Labor force: 2.68 million (2005 est.)

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 45%

Unemployment rate: 16% (2005 est.)

Population below poverty line: 32% (2005 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

• lowest 10%: 0.5%
• highest 10%: 43.8% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index: 56.8 (1999)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.5% (2005 est.)

Investment (gross fixed): 20.1% of GDP (2005 est.)

Budget:

• revenues: $1.334 billion
• expenditures: $1.37 billion, including capital expenditures of $700 million (2005 est.)

Public debt: 36.1% of GDP (2005 est.)

Agriculture - products: cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), fruits, vegetables; beef, pork, eggs, milk; timber

Industries: sugar, cement, textiles, beverages, wood products, steel, metallurgic, electric power

Industrial production growth rate: 0% (2000 est.)

Electricity:

• production: 51.29 billion kWh (2003)
• consumption: 3.528 billion kWh (2003)
• exports: 44.17 billion kWh (2003)
• imports: 0 kWh (2003)

Electricity - production by source:

• fossil fuel: 0%
• hydro: 99.9%
• nuclear: 0%
• other: 0.1% (2001)

Oil:

• production: 0 bbl/d (0 m3/d) (2003 est.)
• consumption: 25,000 bbl/d (4,000 m3/d) (2003 est.)
• exports: NA (2001)
• imports: NA (2001)

Current account balance: $-170 million (2005 est.)

Exports: $3.13 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)

Exports - partners: Uruguay 27.8%, Brazil 19.2%, Argentina 6.3%, Switzerland 4.1% (2004)

Imports: $3.832 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)

Imports - partners: Brazil 30.9%, Argentina 23.3%, China 16.6%, US 4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $1.293 billion (2005 est.)

Debt - external: $3.535 billion (2005 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: NA

Currency: 1 Guarani (G) = 100 centimos

Exchange rates: guarani (G) per US$ - 4,555.00 (2011), 6,158.47 (2005), 5,974.6 (2004), 6,424.34 (2003), 5,716.26 (2002), 4,105.92 (2001), 3,332.0 (January 2000), 3,119.1 (1999), 2,726.5 (1998), 2,177.9 (1997), 2,056.8 (1996), 1,963.0 (1995); note - since early 1998, the exchange rate has operated as a managed float; prior to that, the exchange rate was determined freely in the market

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