rate):
$5.097 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
5.5% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$900 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 26.9%
industry: 16.5%
services: 56.6% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
7.3 million (2000)

Population below poverty line:
50% (2004 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 29% (1999)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
47.5 (2001)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
12% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
26.3% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $879.9 million
expenditures: $1.147 billion; including capital expenditures of $331
million (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca),
beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products

Industries:
meat processing, seafood, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar,
textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper,
petroleum, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production:
984 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 36.1%
hydro: 63.9%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
915.1 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
90.59 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
14,500 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2002)

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$-504 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$993.5 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
coffee, vanilla, shellfish, sugar, cotton cloth, chromite,
petroleum products

Exports - partners:
France 31.5%, US 31%, Germany 8.8% (2005)

Imports:
$1.544 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
capital goods, petroleum, consumer goods, food

Imports - partners:
France 16.7%, China 10.6%, Iran 8%, Mauritius 6.6%, Hong Kong 5%,
South Africa 4.9% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$563 million (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$4.6 billion (2002)

Economic aid - recipient:
$354 million