ructure has nearly collapsed
due to neglect and war-related disruptions in the mining and
agricultural export sectors. The continuing civil war in Liberia has
led to a large influx of refugees, who place additional burdens on
Sierra Leon's fragile economy.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4.5 billion (1993
est.)

National product real growth rate: 0.7% (1993 est.)

National product per capita: $1,000 (1993 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 22% (1993 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $68 million
expenditures: $118 million, including capital expenditures of $28
million (1992 est.)

Exports: $149 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: rutile 48%, bauxite 25%, diamonds 16%, coffee, cocoa,
fish
partners: US, UK, Belgium, Germany, other Western Europe

Imports: $149 million (c.i.f., 1993)
commodities: foodstuffs 48%, machinery and equipment 32%, fuels 9%
partners: US, EC countries, Japan, China, Nigeria

External debt: $1.15 billion (yearend 1993)

Industrial production: growth rate -1.5% (FY91/92); accounts for 11%
of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 130,000 kW
production: 220 million kWh
consumption per capita: 44 kWh (1993)

Industries: mining (diamonds, bauxite, rutile), small-scale
manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear), petroleum
refinery

Agriculture: largely subsistence farming; cash crops - coffee, cocoa,
palm kernels; harvests of food staple rice meets 80% of domestic
needs; annual fish catch averages 53,000 metric tons

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $161 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $848 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $18 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $101 million

Currency: 1 leone (Le) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: leones (Le) per US$1 - 617.67 (January 1995), 586.74
(1994), 567.46 (1993), 499.44 (1992), 295.34 (1991), 144.9275 (1990)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

@Sierra Leone:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 84 km mineral line is used on a limited basis because the mine
at Marampa is closed
narrow gauge: 84 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 7,400 km
paved: 1,150 km
unpaved: crushed stone, gravel 490 km; improved earth 5,760 km

Inland waterways: 800 km; 600 km navigable year round

Ports: Bonthe, Freetown, Pepel

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: