| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $7.742 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
5.5% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $1,100 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 36.4%
industry: 14.5%
services: 49.1% (2003 est.) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
37% (2001 est.) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
1.5% (2003 est.) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $698.9 million
expenditures: $613.2 million, including capital expenditures of NA (2003) |
| Industries : |
textiles, food processing, chemical production, construction materials (2001) |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
8.3% (2001 est.) |
| Electricity - Production : |
274.3 million kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 14.2%
hydro: 85.8%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
631.1 million kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Imports : |
376 million kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
cotton, corn, cassava (tapioca), yams, beans, palm oil, peanuts, livestock (2001) |
| Exports : |
$485 million f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
cotton, crude oil, palm products, cocoa |
| Exports - Partners : |
China 18.4%, India 15.7%, Nigeria 11.9%, Thailand 5.9%, Ghana 5%, Pakistan 5% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$726 million f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
foodstuffs, capital goods, petroleum products |
| Imports - Partners : |
China 30%, France 15.1%, UK 4.8%, Cote d'Ivoire 4.8%, Thailand 4.7% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$1.6 billion (2000) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
$342.6 million (2000) |
| Currency : |
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States |
| Currency Code : |
XOF |
| Exchange Rates : |
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 581.2 (2003), 696.988 (2002), 733.039 (2001), 711.976 (2000), 615.699 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
Calendar Year |
