egradation, and untamed population growth will
continue to hold back growth in living standards over the medium term.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $12.3 billion (1993
est.)

National product real growth rate: -2% (1993 est.)

National product per capita: $1,450 (1993 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): -1.8% (1991 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $1.2 billion
expenditures: $1.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $269
million (1992 est.)

Exports: $904 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
commodities: fish, ground nuts (peanuts), petroleum products,
phosphates, cotton
partners: France, other EC countries, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali

Imports: $1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
commodities: foods and beverages, consumer goods, capital goods,
petroleum
partners: France, other EC countries, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria,
China, Japan

External debt: $2.9 billion (1990)

Industrial production: growth rate 1.9% (1991); accounts for 15% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 230,000 kW
production: 720 million kWh
consumption per capita: 79 kWh (1993)

Industries: agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining,
petroleum refining, building materials

Agriculture: accounts for 20% of GDP; major products - peanuts (cash
crop), millet, corn, sorghum, rice, cotton, tomatoes, green
vegetables; estimated two-thirds self-sufficient in food; fish catch
of 354,000 metric tons in 1990

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian
heroin moving to Europe and North America

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $551 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $5.23 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $589 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $295 million

Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1
- 529.43 (January 1995), 555.20 (1994), 283.16 (1993), 264.69 (1992),
282.11 (1991), 272.26 (1990)
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:
total: 905 km
narrow gauge: 905 km 1.000-meter gauge (70 km double track)

Highways:
total: 14,007 km
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