| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $24.51 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
-1.9% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $1,400 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 36.6%
industry: 19.9%
services: 43.5% (2003 est.) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
37% (1995) |
| Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : |
lowest 10%: 3.1%
highest 10%: 28.8% (1995) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
3.4% (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
6.64 million 68% agricultural (2003) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $2.339 billion
expenditures: $2.749 billion, including capital expenditures of $420 million (2003 est.) |
| Industries : |
foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
15% (1998 est.) |
| Electricity - Production : |
4.605 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 61.9%
hydro: 38.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
2.983 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Exports : |
1.3 billion kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber |
| Exports : |
$5.299 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish |
| Exports - Partners : |
France 19.1%, Netherlands 17.7%, US 7.1%, Spain 5.6% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$2.781 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs |
| Imports - Partners : |
France 32.7%, Nigeria 14.4%, UK 7% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$11.85 billion (2003 est.) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.) |
| 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 |
