GDP: purchasing power parity - $618 million (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,500 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
13%
industry:
19%
services:
68% (1998)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (1999)
Labor force: NA
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$188 million
expenditures:
$228 million, including capital expenditures of $116 million (1996)
Industries: food and beverages?, fish processing, shoes and garments, salt mining, ship repair
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - production: 40 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
100%
hydro:
0%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 37 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: bananas?, corn, beans?, [sweet potato]?es, sugarcane?, coffee, peanut?s; fish
Exports: $38 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: fuel, shoes, garments, fish, bananas, hides
Exports - partners: Portugal, Germany, Spain, France, UK, Malaysia
Imports: $225 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, industrial products, transport equipment, fuels
Imports - partners: Portugal, Netherlands, France, UK, Spain, US
Debt - external: $220 million (1998)
Economic aid - recipient: $111.3 million (1995)
Currency: 1 [Cape Verdean escudo]? (CVEsc) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: Cape Verdean escudos (CVEsc) per US$1 - 107.280 (December 1999), 102.700 (1999), 98.158 (1998), 93.177 (1997), 82.591 (1996), 76.853 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year