t.)

GDP per capita: $400 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12% monthly average (1995 est.)

Labor force: 14.51 million (1993 est.)
by occupation: agriculture 65%, industry 16%, services 19% (1991
est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $479 million
expenditures: $479 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996 est.)

Industries: mining, mineral processing, consumer products
(including textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods and
beverages), cement, diamonds

Industrial production growth rate: -20% (1993)

Electricity:
capacity: 2,830,000 kW
production: 6.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 133 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, quinine,
cassava (tapioca), palm oil, bananas, root crops, corn, fruits; wood
products

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for domestic
consumption

Exports: $419 million (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: copper, coffee, diamonds, cobalt, crude oil
partners: US, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South
Africa

Imports: $382 million (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: consumer goods, foodstuffs, mining and other machinery,
transport equipment, fuels
partners: South Africa, US, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
UK

External debt: $11.3 billion (December 1993 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 zaire (Z) = 100 makuta

Exchange rates: new zaires (Z) per US$1 - 10,618 (October 1995),
1,194 (1994), 3 (1993); zaire (Z) per US$1 - 645,549 (1992), 15,587
(1991)
note: on 22 October 1993 the new zaire, equal to 3,000,000 old
zaires, was introduced

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 5,138 km (1995); note - severely reduced trackage in use
because of civil strife
narrow gauge: 3,987 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km
1.000-m gauge; 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge

Highways:
total: 145,000 km
paved: 290 km
unpaved: 144,710 km (1991 est.)

Waterways: 15,000 km including the Congo, its tributaries, and
unconnected lakes

Pipelines: petroleum products 390 km

Ports: Banana, Boma, Bukavu, Bumba, Goma, Kalemie, Kindu,
Kinshasa, Kisangani, Matadi, Mbandaka

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 217
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 4
with paved runways 2 438