10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9% (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $700 million
expenditures: $750 million; including capital expenditures of $24
million (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, quinine, cassava (tapioca),
palm oil, bananas, root crops, corn, fruits; wood products

Industries:
mining (diamonds, copper, zinc), mineral processing, consumer
products (including textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods
and beverages), cement, commercial ship repair

Industrial production growth rate:
NA%

Electricity - production:
353 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 1.8%
hydro: 98.2%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
658.3 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
330 million kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
21,090 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
8,200 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
1.538 billion bbl (1 January 2002)

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

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

Natural gas - proved reserves:
991.1 million cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Exports:
$1.108 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
diamonds, copper, crude oil, coffee, cobalt

Exports - partners:
Belgium 38.1%, US 17.8%, China 11.6%, France 8%, Finland 7.7%,
Chile 4.3% (2005)

Imports:
$1.319 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels

Imports - partners:
South Africa 18%, Belgium 15.6%, France 8.8%, Zambia 6.7%, Kenya
6.2%, Germany 4.5%, US 4.4%, Cote d'Ivoire 4.2%, Netherlands 4%
(2005)

Debt - external:
$10.6 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$2.2 billion (FY03/04)

Currency (code):
Congolese franc (CDF)

Currency code:
CDF

Exchange rates:
Congolese francs per US dollar - 437.86 (2005), 401.04 (2004),
405.34 (2003), 346.49 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Telephones - main lines in use:
10,600 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.746 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: poor
domestic: barely adequate wire and microwave radio relay service in
and betwee