rate (consumer prices): - 0.5% (1989)

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $275 million; expenditures $287 million, including
capital expenditures of $NA (1989)

_#_Exports: $262 million (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities--oilseeds, cotton, live animals, gold;

partners--EC 42% (France 30%, other 12%), Taiwan 17%,
Ivory Coast 15% (1985)

_#_Imports: $619 million (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities--grain, dairy products, petroleum, machinery;

partners--EC 37% (France 23%, other 14%), Africa 31%, US 15%
(1985)

_#_External debt: $962 million (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 5.7% (1990est.), accounts for
about 15%
of GDP (1988)

_#_Electricity: 121,000 kW capacity; 320 million kWh produced, 37
kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing,
soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold

_#_Agriculture: accounts for about 40% of GDP; cash crops--peanuts,
shea nuts, sesame, cotton; food crops--sorghum, millet, corn, rice;
livestock; not self-sufficient in food grains

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $294
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $2.7 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $113 million

_#_Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc
(plural--francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: CFA 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: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 620 km total; 520 km Ouagadougou to Ivory Coast border
and 100 km Ouagadougou to Kaya; all 1.00-meter gauge and single track

_#_Highways: 16,500 km total; 1,300 km paved, 7,400 km improved,
7,800 km unimproved (1985)

_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 50 total, 43 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 7 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: all services only fair; radio relay, wire, and
radio communication stations in use; 13,900 telephones; stations--2 AM,
2 FM, 2 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,838,000; 937,304 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expen