juvenile delinquency, and drug addiction.
Forecasters predict growth will continue in the 5% range in
1999-2000.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$15.6 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 5.7% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$1,600 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 19%
industry: 17%
services: 64% (1996 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.4%
highest 10%: 42.8% (1991)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.8% (1998 est.)

Labor force: NA

Labor force--by occupation: agriculture 60%

Unemployment rate: NA%; urban youth 40%

Budget:
revenues: $885 million
expenditures: $885 million, including capital expenditures of $125
million (1996 est.)

Industries: agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining,
fertilizer production, petroleum refining, construction materials

Industrial production growth rate: 7% (1998 est.)

Electricity--production: 1.027 billion kWh (1997 est.)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 730 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1997)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1997)

Agriculture--products: peanuts, millet, corn, sorghum, rice,
cotton, tomatoes, green vegetables; cattle, poultry, pigs; fish

Exports: $925 million (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: fish, ground nuts (peanuts), petroleum
products, phosphates, cotton

Exports--partners: France 20%, other EU countries, India, Cote
d'Ivoire, Mali (1996)

Imports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: foods and beverages, consumer goods, capital
goods, petroleum products

Imports--partners: France 36%, other EU countries, Nigeria,
Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria, US, China, Japan (1996)

Debt--external: $3.8 billion (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $647.5 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100
centimes

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per
US$1--560.01 (December 1998), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55
(1966), 499.15 (1995), 555.20 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 81,988 (1995 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: above-average urban system; microwave radio relay, coaxial
cable and fiber-optic cable in trunk system
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