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Agriculture > products vegetables, fruits, tobacco, livestock, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets
Big Mac Index	$1.88		[49th of 65]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Debt > External	$34,880,000,000.00		[53rd of 136]
Source: The Economist.
Distribution of family income > Gini index	31.6		[23rd of 43]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Economic freedom	1.65		[113rd of 156]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Exports	$18,440,000,000.00		[66th of 189]
Source: The Heritage Foundation
GDP	$31,483,000,000.00		[66th of 203]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
GDP > PPP	$62,292,000,000.00		[64th of 163]
Source: World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook
GDP > Real growth rate	6.2%		[69th of 198]
Source: World Bank. 2005. World Development Indicators 2005.
GDP per capita in 1973	$5,284.00		[27th of 52]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
GINI index	29.21		[34th of 40]
Source: Angus Maddison
Gross National Income	$13,240,800,000.00		[70th of 172]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Human Development Index	0.808		[55th of 178]
Income category	Lower middle income
Source: Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Development Programme
Income distribution > Richest 10%	22.8%		[103rd of 114]
Source:
Population below poverty line	14.1%		[37th of 46]
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Poverty > Share of all poor people	0.02 % of world's poor		[65th of 80]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Public debt	10.5 % of GDP		[109th of 121]
Source: Country Responsibilities in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals", April 8 2003, by Janice Poling
Technological achievement	0.41		[27th of 68]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Tourist arrivals	2,980,000		[31st of 152]
Source: United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report 2001. New York: Oxford University Press,2001, Table A2.1. via ciesin.org

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