GDP: purchasing power parity - $182.8 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -7.2% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $8,000 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
4%
industry:
63%
services:
33% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line: 67% (1997 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.5%
highest 10%:
35.6% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 20% (1999)
Labor force: 9.9 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation: services 64%, industry 23%, agriculture 13% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate: 18% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$26.4 billion
expenditures:
$27 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries: petroleum, iron ore mining, construction materials, food processing, textiles, steel, aluminum, motor vehicle assembly
Industrial production growth rate: 0.5% (1995 est.)
Electricity - production: 70.39 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
25.46%
hydro:
74.54%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 65.463 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, bananas, vegetables, coffee; beef, pork, milk, eggs; fish
Exports: $20.9 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: petroleum, bauxite and aluminum, steel, chemicals, agricultural products, basic manufactures (1998)
Exports - partners: US and Puerto Rico 57%, Colombia, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Italy (1999)
Imports: $11.8 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities: raw materials, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, construction materials (1999)
Imports - partners: US 53%, Japan, Colombia, Italy, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada (1999)
Debt - external: $32 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $35 million with more assistance likely as a result of flooding (1999)
Currency: 1 bolivar (Bs) = 100 centimos
Exchange rates: bolivares (Bs) per US$1 - 652.333 (January 2000), 605.717 (1999), 547.556 (1998), 488.635 (1997), 417.333 (1996), 176.843 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year