)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 16.8%
industry: 27.2%
services: 56% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
21.3% of GDP (2003)

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% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
4.62 million NA (2003)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 70%

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

Budget:
revenues: $1.304 billion
expenditures: $1.367 billion, including capital expenditures of $357
million (2003 est.)

Public debt:
54.2% of GDP (2003)

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

Industrial production growth rate:
2.9% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
1.518 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.412 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

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

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

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:
$-389 million (2003)

Exports:
$1.23 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

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

Exports - partners:
India 13%, France 12.2%, Mali 9.5%, Italy 8.5%, Cote d'Ivoire 5.4%,
Spain 5% (2003)

Imports:
$1.753 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

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

Imports - partners:
France 24.9%, Nigeria 12.2%, Thailand 6.7%, Spain 4.3% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$780 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$3.009 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$362.6 million (2002 est.)

Currency:
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible
authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

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