_#_GDP: $3.3 billion, per capita $3,090; real growth rate 13% (1990
est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (1989 est.)

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $1.1 billion; expenditures $1.5 billion,
including capital expenditures of $277 million (1990 est.)

_#_Exports: $1.16 billion (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities--crude oil 70%, manganese 11%, wood 12%, uranium 6%;

partners--France 53%, US 22%, FRG, Japan

_#_Imports: $0.78 billion (c.i.f., 1989);

commodities--foodstuffs, chemical products, petroleum products,
construction materials, manufactures, machinery;

partners--France 48%, US 2.6%, FRG, Japan, UK

_#_External debt: $3.4 billion (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 10% (1988 est.)

_#_Electricity: 310,000 kW capacity; 980 million kWh produced,
920 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: petroleum, food and beverages, timber, cement
plywood, textiles, mining--manganese, uranium, gold)

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP (including fishing and
forestry); cash crops--cocoa, coffee, palm oil; livestock not developed;
importer of food; small fishing operations provide a catch of about
20,000 metric tons; okoume (a tropical softwood) is the most important
timber product

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $66
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $1.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $27 million

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

_#_Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
per US$1--253.32 (December 1990), 171.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85
(1988), 300.54 (1987), 346.30 (1986), 449.26 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 649 km 1.437-meter standard-gauge single track
(Transgabonese Railroad)

_#_Highways: 7,500 km total; 560 km paved, 960 km laterite, 5,980 km
earth

_#_Inland waterways: 1,600 km perennially navigable

_#_Pipelines: crude oil, 270 km; refined products, 14 km

_#_Ports: Owendo, Port-Gentil, Libreville

_#_Merchant marine: 2 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 18,563
GRT/25,330 DWT

_#_Civil air: 11 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 73 total, 61 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 22 with
runways 1,220-2