GDP (purchasing power parity):
$441 million (2002 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$402 million (2005 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2005 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$600 (2005 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 40%
industry: 4%
services: 56% (2001 est.)

Labor force:
144,500 (1996 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 80%
industry and services: 20%

Unemployment rate:
20% (1996 est.)

Population below poverty line:
60% (2002 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3% (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $27.6 million
expenditures: $NA (2001 est.)

Agriculture - products:
vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, copra, coconuts, bananas,
cassava (tapioca)

Industries:
fishing, tourism, perfume distillation

Industrial production growth rate:
-2% (1999 est.)

Electricity - production:
19 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 90.6%
hydro: 9.4%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
17.67 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
720 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-17 million (2005 est.)

Exports:
$34 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), cloves, copra

Exports - partners:
France 26.9%, Singapore 16.3%, Japan 14.6%, Germany 13.2%, US 5.6%,
Netherlands 5% (2005)

Imports:
$115 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
rice and other foodstuffs, consumer goods, petroleum products,
cement, transport equipment

Imports - partners:
France 19.2%, Kenya 18.2%, UAE 8.5%, South Africa 6.3%, Pakistan
5.6%, Belgium 4% (2005)

Debt - external:
$232 million (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$24 million (2003 est.)

Currency (code):
Comoran franc (KMF)

Currency code:
KMF

Exchange rates:
Comoran francs (KMF) per US dollar - 395.6 (2005), 396.21 (2004),
435.9 (2003), 522.74 (2002), note, the Comoran franc is pegged to
the euro at a rate of 491.9677 Comoran