670 sq km (1998 est.)

party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 94%
male: 94.9%
female: 93% (2003 est.)

Landlocked Paraguay has a market economy marked by a large informal sector. This sector features both re-export of imported consumer goods to neighboring countries as well as the activities of thousands of microenterprises and urban street vendors. Because of the importance of the informal sector, accurate economic measures are difficult to obtain. A large percentage of the population derives their living from agricultural activity, often on a subsistence basis.

$29.93 billion (2004 est.)

2.8% (2004 est.)

agriculture: 25.3%
industry: 24.9%
services: 49.8% (2004 est.)

2.66 million (2004 est.)

agriculture 45%

lowest 10%: 0.5%
highest 10%: 43.8% (1998)

18.1% of GDP (2004 est.)

revenues: $1.123 billion
expenditures: $1.129 billion, including capital expenditures of $700 million (2004 est.)

39.2% of GDP (2004 est.)

cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), fruits, vegetables; beef, pork, eggs, milk; timber

sugar, cement, textiles, beverages, wood products, steel, metallurgic, electric power

0% (2000 est.)

48.36 billion kWh (2002)

fossil fuel: 0%
hydro: 99.9%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.1% (2001)

0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

25,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

$2.936 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

soybeans, feed, cotton, meat, edible oils, electricity, wood, leather