GDP: purchasing power parity - $12.4 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,100 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
36%
industry:
20%
services:
44% (1997)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (1999 est.)
Labor force:
4.679 million (persons 10 years old and over, according to a sample survey taken in 1991)
note:
a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$277 million
expenditures:
$492 million, including capital expenditures of $233 million (1995 est.)
Industries: cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold
Industrial production growth rate: 4.2% (1995)
Electricity - production: 225 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
64.44%
hydro:
35.56%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 209 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, cotton, sorghum, millet, corn, rice; livestock
Exports: $311 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Exports - commodities: cotton, animal products, gold
Exports - partners: Côte d'Ivoire, Taiwan, France, Colombia, Italy, Mali
Imports: $572 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery, food products, petroleum
Imports - partners: Côte d'Ivoire, France, Senegal, Togo, Nigeria, United States
Debt - external: $1.3 billion (1997)
Economic aid - recipient: $484.1 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)
note:
since 1 January 1999, the CFAF franc is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro
Fiscal year: calendar year