ould help agricultural and GDP growth recover in 2004. The
government estimates that annual growth of 7% is needed to reduce
poverty.

GDP:
purchasing power parity - $46.81 billion (2003 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
-3.8% (2003 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $700 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 46%
industry: 12.6%
services: 41.4% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
17% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:
50% (2003 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 33.7% (1995)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
40 (1995)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
17.8% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
NA (2001 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture and animal husbandry 80%, industry and construction 8%,
government and services 12% (1985)

Unemployment rate:
NA (2002)

Budget:
revenues: $1.813 billion
expenditures: $2.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $788
million (2003 est.)

Agriculture - products:
cereals, pulses, coffee, oilseed, sugarcane, potatoes, qat; hides,
cattle, sheep, goats

Industries:
food processing, beverages, textiles, chemicals, metals processing,
cement

Industrial production growth rate:
6.7% (2001 est.)

Electricity - production:
1.713 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.594 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
23,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
214,000 bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
12.46 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$-408 million (2003)

Exports:
$537 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
coffee, qat, gold, leather products, live animals, oilseeds

Exports - partners:
Djibouti 13.4%, Germany 11.4%, Saudi Arabia 6.9%, Japan 6.8%, Italy
6.4%, US 5.1% (2003)

Imports:
$1.964 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
food and live animals, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals,
machinery, motor vehicles, cereals, textiles

Imports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 24.1%, US 17%, China 6.4%, Italy 4.1% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$956 million (2003)