ts of
agricultural products and crude oil.

_#_GDP: $2.0 billion, per capita $400; real growth rate 2.6% (1990)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.0% (1990)

_#_Unemployment: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $194 million; expenditures $390 million, including
capital expenditures of $104 million (1990 est.)

_#_Exports: $250 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);

commodities--crude oil, cotton, palm products, cocoa;

partners--FRG 36%, France 16%, Spain 14%, Italy 8%, UK 4%

_#_Imports: $442 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities--foodstuffs, beverages, tobacco, petroleum products,
intermediate goods, capital goods, light consumer goods;

partners--France 34%, Netherlands 10%, Japan 7%, Italy 6%, US 4%

_#_External debt: $1.0 billion (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 0.7% (1988); accounts for
30% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 28,000 kW capacity; 24 million kWh produced,
5 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: textiles,cigarettes, construction materials,
beverages, food production, petroleum

_#_Agriculture: small farms produce 90% of agricultural output;
production is dominated by food crops--corn, sorghum, cassava, beans,
and rice; cash crops include cotton, palm oil, and peanuts; poultry
and livestock output has not kept up with consumption

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $46
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $1.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $19 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $101 million

_#_Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc
(plural--francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
per US$1--256.54 (January 1991), 272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989),
297.85 (1988), 300.54 (1987), 346.30 (1986), 449.26 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 578 km, all 1.000-meter gauge, single track

_#_Highways: 5,050 km total; 920 km paved, 2,600 laterite, 1,530 km
improved earth

_#_Inland waterways: navigable along small sections, important
only locally

_#_Ports: Cotonou

_#_Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 6 total, 4 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 2,439 m; 4 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: fair system of open wire, submarine cable, and
radio relay; 16,200 telephones; stations