(2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
5.2% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$1,300 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 32.6%
industry: 19.7%
services: 47.7% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
5 million
note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to
neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 90%
industry and services: 10% (2000 est.)

Unemployment rate:
NA%

Population below poverty line:
45% (2003 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 46.8% (1994)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
48.2 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
20.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.158 billion
expenditures: $1.714 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice;
livestock

Industries:
cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes,
textiles, gold

Industrial production growth rate:
14% (2001 est.)

Electricity - production:
400 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 69.9%
hydro: 30.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
372 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
8,200 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:
$-604.6 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$543.5 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
cotton, livestock, gold

Exports - partners:
China 39.8%, Singapore 13.1%, Thailand 5.9%, Ghana 5.4%, Taiwan
4.6%, Niger 4% (2005)

Imports:
$1.016 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
capital goods, foodstuffs, petroleum

Imports - partners:
France 23.9%, Cote d'Ivoire 23.3%, Togo 6.7% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.328 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$1.85 billion (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$468.4 million (2003)

Currency (code):
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsibl