GDP: purchasing power parity - $4.15 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,530 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
10%
industry:
59%
services:
31% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4% (1999 est.)
Labor force: NA
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$870 million
expenditures:
$970 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries: petroleum extraction, cement kilning, lumbering, brewing, sugar milling, palm oil, soap, cigarette making
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - production: 503 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
0.6%
hydro:
99.4%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 588 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 120 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: cassava (tapioca), sugar, rice, corn, peanuts, vegetables, coffee, cocoa; forest products
Exports: $1.7 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: petroleum 50%, lumber, plywood, sugar, cocoa, coffee, diamonds
Exports - partners: US 23%, Benelux 14%, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, China (1998)
Imports: $770 million (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities: petroleum products, capital equipment, construction materials, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: France 23%, US 9%, Belgium 8%, UK 7%, Italy (1997 est.)
Debt - external: $5 billion (1997)
Economic aid - recipient: $159.1 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 647.25 (January 2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year