producer of diamonds.

_#_GDP: $6.6 billion, per capita $180; real growth rate - 2% (1990
est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 242% (1990)

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $685 million; expenditures $1.1 billion, does
not include capital expenditures mostly financed by donors (1990)

_#_Exports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1989 est.);

commodities--copper 37%, coffee 24%, diamonds 12%, cobalt, crude
oil;

partners--US, Belgium, France, FRG, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa

_#_Imports: $2.1 billion (f.o.b., 1989 est.);

commodities--consumer goods, foodstuffs, mining and other
machinery, transport equipment, fuels;

partners--South Africa, US, Belgium, France, FRG, Italy, Japan, UK

_#_External debt: $7.9 billion (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 3.1%; accounts for 30%
of GDP (1988)

_#_Electricity: 2,575,000 kW capacity; 5,550 million kWh produced,
150 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: mining, mineral processing, consumer products
(including textiles, footwear, and cigarettes), processed foods and
beverages, cement, diamonds

_#_Agriculture: cash crops--coffee, palm oil, rubber, quinine; food
crops--cassava, bananas, root crops, corn

_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for domestic
consumption

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.1
billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $6.4 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $35 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $263 million

_#_Currency: zaire (plural--zaire); 1 zaire (Z) = 100 makuta

_#_Exchange rates: zaire (Z) per US$1--2,113.55 (January 1991),
718.58 (1990), 381.445 (1989), 187.070 (1988), 112.403 (1987), 59.625
(1986), 49.873 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 5,254 km total; 3,968 km 1.067-meter gauge (851 km
electrified); 125 km 1.000-meter gauge; 136 km 0.615-meter gauge;
1,025 km 0.600-meter gauge

_#_Highways: 146,500 km total; 2,550 km bituminous, 46,450 km gravel
and improved earth; remainder unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: 15,000 km including the Congo, its tributaries,
and unconnected lakes

_#_Pipelines: refined products 390 km

_#_Ports: Matadi, Boma, Banana

_#_Merchant marine: 4 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 41,802
GRT/60,496 DWT; includes 1 passenger cargo, 3 cargo

_#_Civil air: 38 major t