GDP: - $25.5 (2006 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 8.3% (2006 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $7,700 (2006 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 8.3%
industry: 14.7%
services: 77.1% (2003 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 0.5%
highest 10%: 42.5% (1991) 24.8% of GDP (2003)
Population below poverty line: 27% (2007 confirmation.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.2%
highest 10%: 35.7% (1997)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 48.5 (1997)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.4% (2003 est.)
Labor force: 1.19 million
note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2003 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 20.8%, industry 18%, services 61.2% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: 8.6% (2006 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $2.995 billion
expenditures: $3.421 billion, including capital expenditures of $471 million (2003 est.)
Agriculture - products: bananas, rice, corn, coffee, sugarcane, vegetables; livestock; shrimp
Industries: construction, petroleum refining, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling
Currency: balboa (PAB); US dollar (USD)
Exchange rates: balboas per US dollar - 1 (2003), 1 (2002), 1 (2001), 1 (2000), 1 (1999) (fixed rate)
Fiscal year: calendar year |
