(1989)
_#_Unemployment rate: NA%
_#_Budget: revenues $220 million; expenditures $446 million, including
capital expenditures of $190 million (FY89 est.)
_#_Exports: $308 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);
commodities--uranium 75%, livestock products, cowpeas, onions;
partners--France 65%, Nigeria 11%, Ivory Coast, Italy
_#_Imports: $386 million (c.i.f., 1989 est.);
commodities--petroleum products, primary materials, machinery,
vehicles and parts, electronic equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemical
products, cereals, foodstuffs;
partners--France 32%, Ivory Coast 11%, Germany 5%, Italy 4%,
Nigeria 4%
_#_External debt: $1.8 billion (December 1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 3.0% (1989 est.); accounts
for 18% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 102,000 kW capacity; 225 million kWh produced,
30 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: cement, brick, textiles, food processing, chemicals,
slaughterhouses, and a few other small light industries; uranium
production began in 1971
_#_Agriculture: accounts for roughly 40% of GDP and 90% of labor
force; cash crops--cowpeas, cotton, peanuts; food crops--millet, sorghum,
cassava, rice; livestock--cattle, sheep, goats; self-sufficient in food
except in drought years
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $380
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $3.0 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $504 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $61 million
_#_Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc
(plural--francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
_#_Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
per US$1--256.54 (January 1991), 272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85
(1988), 300.54 (1987), 346.30 (1986), 449.26 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September
_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 39,970 km total; 3,170 km bituminous, 10,330 km gravel
and laterite, 3,470 km earthen, 23,000 km tracks
_#_Inland waterways: Niger river is navigable 300 km from Niamey to
Gaya on the Benin frontier from mid-December through March
_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 31 total, 29 usable; 7 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 12 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: small system of wire, radiocommunications, and
radio relay links concentrated in southwestern area;
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