| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $10.67 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
15% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $1,200 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 32.4%
industry: 18.8%
services: 48.8% (2003 est.) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
80% (2001 est.) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
6% (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
agriculture more than 80% (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $591.2 million
expenditures: $680.9 million, including capital expenditures of $146 million (2003 est.) |
| Industries : |
oil, cotton textiles, meatpacking, beer brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
5% (1995) |
| Electricity - Production : |
94.04 million kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
87.46 million kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels |
| Exports : |
$365 million f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
cotton, cattle, gum arabic |
| Exports - Partners : |
US 24.2%, Germany 16.5%, Portugal 15.4%, France 6.6%, Nigeria 5.5%, Morocco 4.4% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$760 million f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles |
| Imports - Partners : |
France 25.8%, US 18.7%, Cameroon 13.2%, Nigeria 6.8%, Netherlands 4.2% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$1.1 billion (2000 est.) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
$238.3 million; note - $125 million committed by Taiwan (August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank; ODA $150 million (2001 est.) |
| Currency : |
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States |
| Currency Code : |
XAF |
| Exchange Rates : |
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 581.2 (2003), 696.988 (2002), 733.039 (2001), 711.976 (2000), 615.699 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
Calendar Year |
