Economic Data
GDP: purchasing power parity - $77.00 billion (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.3% (2012 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $7,473 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 11.6%
industry: 25.7%
services: 62.8% (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line: 7.4% (2005 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.3%
highest 10%: 31.5% (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.1% (2007 est.)
Labor force: 3.593 million (2007 est.)
note: shortage of skilled labor
Labor force - by occupation: services 55%, industry 23%, agriculture 22% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: 14.1% (2007 est.)
Ease of Doing Business Rank: 55th
Budget:
revenues: $6.101 billion
expenditures: $6.855 billion, including capital expenditures of $1.6 billion (2003 est.)
Industries: Petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron ore), tourism, textiles, footwear, agribusiness, beverages
Industrial production growth rate: 7.2% (2007 est.)
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