onsumer prices):

1.9% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

4.25% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

NA

Stock of money:

$4.451 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$1.915 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$4.404 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc
(tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber

Industries:

foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus
assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity,
ship construction and repair

Industrial production growth rate:

-1.8% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

5.274 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

3.177 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

1.066 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 61.9%
hydro: 38.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

54,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - consumption:

25,950 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

84,940 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

71,850 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

100 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

1.3 billion cu m (2006 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

1.3 billion cu m (2006 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

-$146 million (2007 est.)

Exports:

$8.476 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm
oil, fish

Exports - partners:

Germany 9.7%, Nigeria 9.2%, Netherlands 8.4%, France 7.3%, US 7%,
Burkina Faso 4.4% (2007)

Imports:

$5.932 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:

Nigeria 31.1%, France 16.7%, China 7.3% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

ODA, $60 million (2007 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$2.519 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$13.79 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$NA

Stock of direct foreign investment - abr