GDP: purchasing power parity - $43.7 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 8.3% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $5,400 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
13.6%
industry:
30.8%
services:
55.6% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line: 25% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.6%
highest 10%:
39.6% (1989)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.1% (1999)
Labor force: 2.3 million to 2.6 million
Labor force - by occupation: services and government 58.7%, industry 24.3%, agriculture 17% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate: 13.8% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$2.3 billion
expenditures:
$2.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $867 million (1999 est.)
Industries: tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, tobacco
Industrial production growth rate: 6.3% (1995 est.)
Electricity - production: 8.476 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
72.04%
hydro:
27.62%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0.34% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 7.883 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rice, beans, potatoes, corn, bananas; cattle, pigs, dairy products, beef, eggs
Exports: $5.1 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: ferronickel, sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats
Exports - partners: US 61.6%, Belgium 11.1%, Asia 5.9%, Canada 2.9% (1998 est.)
Imports: $8.2 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Imports - partners: US 56%, Venezuela 23%, Mexico 9%, Japan 4% (1999 est.)
Debt - external: $3.7 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $239.6 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Dominican peso (RD$) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: Dominican pesos (RD$) per US$1 - 16.161 (January 2000), 16.033 (1999), 15.267 (1998), 14.265 (1997), 13.775 (1996), 13.597 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year