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GDP: purchasing power parity - $865.5 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.7% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $8,500 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
5%
industry:
29%
services:
66% (1999)
Population below poverty line: 27% (1998 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.8%
highest 10%:
36.6% (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 38.6 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 24%, industry 21%, services 55% (1997)
Unemployment rate: 2.5% urban (1998); plus considerable underemployment
Budget:
revenues:
$117 billion
expenditures:
$123 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: 4% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 176.055 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
78.12%
hydro:
13.82%
nuclear:
5%
other:
3.06% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 164.767 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 11 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 1.047 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; beef, poultry, dairy products; wood products
Exports: $136.8 billion (f.o.b., 1999), includes in-bond industries (assembly plant operations with links to US companies)
Exports - commodities: manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, coffee, cotton
Exports - partners: US 89.3%, Canada 1.7%, Spain 0.6%, Japan 0.5%, Venezuela 0.3%, Chile 0.3%, Brazil 0.3% (1999 est.)
Imports: $142.1 billion (f.o.b., 1999), includes in-bond industries (assembly plant operations with links to US companies)
Imports - commodities: metal-working machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts
Imports - partners: US 74.8%, Germany 3.8%, Japan 3.5%, Canada 1.9%, South Korea 2%, Italy 1.3%, France 1% (1999 est.)
Debt - external: $155.8 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $1.166 billion (1995)
Currency: 1 New Mexican peso (Mex$) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: Mexican pesos (Mex$) per US$1 - 9.4793 (January 2000), 9.5604 (1999), 9.1360 (1998), 7.9185 (1997), 7.5994(1996), 6.4194 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year