d 1993, has jeopardized the
reform program and has disrupted vital economic activity.
National product:
GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $3.3 billion (1993 est.)
National product real growth rate:
NA
National product per capita:
$800 (1993 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.5% (1991 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$284 million
expenditures:
$407 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991 est.)
Exports:
$558 million (f.o.b., 1991)
commodities:
phosphates, cotton, cocoa, coffee
partners:
EC 40%, Africa 16%, US 1% (1990)
Imports:
$636 million (f.o.b., 1991)
commodities:
machinery and equipment, consumer goods, food, chemical products
partners:
EC 57%, Africa 17%, US 5%, Japan 4% (1990)
External debt:
$1.3 billion (1991)
Industrial production:
growth rate 9% (1991 est.); accounts for 20% of GDP
Electricity:
capacity:
179,000 kW
production:
209 million kWh
consumption per capita:
60 kWh (1990)
Industries:
phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement, handicrafts,
textiles, beverages
Agriculture:
accounts for 33% of GDP; cash crops - coffee, cocoa, cotton; food
crops - yams, cassava, corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock
production not significant; annual fish catch of 10,000-14,000 tons
Illicit drugs:
increasingly used as transit hub by heroin traffickers
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-90), $142 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-90), $2
billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $35 million; Communist
countries (1970-89), $51 million
Currency:
1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 592.05
(January 1994), 283.16 (1993), 264.69 (1992), 282.11 (1991), 272.26
(1990), 319.01 (1989)
note:
the official rate is pegged to the French franc, and beginning 12
January 1994, the CFA franc was devalued to CFAF 100 per French franc
from CFAF 50 at which it had been fixed since 1948
Fiscal year:
calendar year

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Railroads:
570 km 1.000-meter gauge, single track
Highways:
total:
6,462 km
paved:
1,762 km
unpaved:
unimproved earth 4,700 km
Inland waterways:
50 km Mono River
Ports:
Lome, Kpeme (phosphate port)
Merchant marine:
2 roll-on/roll-off cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 11,118
GRT/20,529 DW