tilateral, and private sector debt.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$18.36 billion (2004 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
3.2% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,700 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 15.9%
industry: 21.4%
services: 62.7% (2004 est.)

Labor force:
4.65 million (2004 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 70%

Unemployment rate:
48% (urban youth 40%) (2001 est.)

Population below poverty line:
54% (2001 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 33.5% (1995)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
41.3 (1995)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.8% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
20.1% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.572 billion
expenditures: $1.627 billion, including capital expenditures of $357
million (2004 est.)

Public debt:
55.2% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
peanuts, millet, corn, sorghum, rice, cotton, tomatoes, green
vegetables; cattle, poultry, pigs; fish

Industries:
agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining, fertilizer
production, petroleum refining, construction materials, ship
construction and repair

Industrial production growth rate:
4.7% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
1.737 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.615 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
31,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Natural gas - production:
50 million cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
50 million cu m (2001 est.)

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

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

Current account balance:
$-518.8 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$1.374 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
fish, groundnuts (peanuts), petroleum products, phosphates, cotton

Exports - partners:
India 14.4%, Mali 13.1%, France 9.8%, Italy 7.3%, Spain 6.6%,
Guinea-Bissau 5.6%, Gambia, The 4.8% (2004)

Imports:
$2.128 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
food and beverages, capital goods, fuels

Imports - partners