GDP: purchasing power parity - $19.9 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -1% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,650 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
28%
industry:
21%
services:
51% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line: 32% (1997-98 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
0.7%
highest 10%:
46.6% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (1999)
Labor force: 1.7 million (1996)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 45%
Unemployment rate: 12% (1998 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$1.9 billion
expenditures:
$2.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $700 million (1995 est.)
Industries: sugar, cement, textiles, beverages, wood products
Industrial production growth rate: -4% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 50.324 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
0.12%
hydro:
99.66%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0.22% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 1.494 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 45.307 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), fruits, vegetables; beef, pork, eggs, milk; timber
Exports: $3.1 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: soybeans, feed, cotton, meat, edible oils
Exports - partners: Brazil, Argentina, EU
Imports: $3.2 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: road vehicles, consumer goods, tobacco, petroleum products, electrical machinery
Imports - partners: Brazil 34%, US, Argentina, Uruguay, EU, Hong Kong (1998)
Debt - external: $2.7 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $NA
Currency: 1 guarani (G) = 100 centimos
Exchange rates: guarani (G) per US$ - 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
Fiscal year: calendar year