Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.4% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
11.3% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.412 billion
expenditures: $2.767 billion, including capital expenditures of $420
million (2004 est.)

Public debt:
74.8% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc
(tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber

Industries:
foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus
assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity,
ship construction and repair

Industrial production growth rate:
15% (1998 est.)

Electricity - production:
4.759 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 61.9%
hydro: 38.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
2.976 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
1.45 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
29,300 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
32,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
220 million bbl (2004 est.)

Natural gas - production:
1.35 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
1.35 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
14.87 billion cu m (2004)

Current account balance:
$-421.5 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$5.124 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm
oil, fish

Exports - partners:
US 11.6%, Netherlands 10.3%, France 9.5%, Italy 5.5%, Belgium 4.7%,
Germany 4.7% (2004)

Imports:
$3.36 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
France 24.3%, Nigeria 19.2%, UK 4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.95 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$11.81 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)

Currency (code):
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 - 528.29
(2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002),