GDP: [purchasing power]? parity - $7.9 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.7% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $6,500 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
10%
industry:
60%
services:
30% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.9% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 600,000
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 60%, services? and government 25%, industry and commerce? 15%
Unemployment rate: 21% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$1.5 billion
expenditures:
$1.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $302 million (1996 est.)
Industries: food and beverage; textile?; lumbering? and plywood?; cement; [petroleum extraction and refining]?; manganese, uranium, and [gold mining]?; chemicals?; [ship repair]?
Industrial production growth rate: 2.3% (1995)
Electricity - production: 1.025 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
27.8%
hydro:
72.2%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 953 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: cocoa?, coffee, sugar, [palm oil]?, rubber?; cattle; okoume? (a [tropical softwood]?); fish
Exports: $2.4 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: [crude oil]? 75%, timber, manganese, uranium (1998)
Exports - partners: US 68%, China 9%, France 8%, Japan 3% (1998)
Imports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery? and equipment?, foodstuff?s, chemicals, [petroleum product]?s, [construction material]?s
Imports - partners: France 39%, US 6%, Cameroon 5%, Netherlands 5%, Cote d'Ivoire, Japan (1998)
Debt - external: $4.6 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $331 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 is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro