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GDP: purchasing power parity - $25.7 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,600 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
32%
industry:
18%
services:
50% (1998)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.8%
highest 10%:
28.5% (1988)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (1999 est.)
Labor force: NA
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$2.3 billion
expenditures:
$2.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $640 million (1997 est.)
Industries: foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, automobile assembly, textiles, fertilizer, construction materials, electricity
Industrial production growth rate: 15% (1998 est.)
Electricity - production: 3.36 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
35.71%
hydro:
64.29%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 3.165 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 40 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber
Exports: $3.9 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: cocoa 37%, coffee, tropical woods, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton, fish (1998)
Exports - partners: France 17%, Netherlands 12%, US 9%, Italy 6% (1998)
Imports: $2.6 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel, transport equipment
Imports - partners: France 29%, US 5%, Italy 5%, Germany 5% (1998)
Debt - external: $16.8 billion (1998 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates:
CFA francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 647.25 (January 2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995)
note:
since 1 January 1999, the CFAF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro
Fiscal year: calendar year