ndent on
sustained bilateral and multilateral aid and on responsible
government economic management as forwarded by IMF technical help
and advice.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$1.3 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 3.8% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$1,000 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 23%
industry: 13%
services: 64% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (1998 est.)

Labor force: NA

Labor force--by occupation: agriculture 75%, industry, commerce,
and services 19%, government 6%

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $88.6 million
expenditures: $98.2 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY96/97 est.)

Industries: processing peanuts, fish, and hides; tourism;
beverages; agricultural machinery assembly, woodworking,
metalworking; clothing

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: 70 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 70 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: peanuts, millet, sorghum, rice, corn,
cassava (tapioca), palm kernels; cattle, sheep, goats; forest and
fishery resources not fully exploited

Exports: $120 million (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: peanuts and peanut products, fish, cotton
lint, palm kernels

Exports--partners: Belgium, Japan, Senegal, Hong Kong, France,
Switzerland, UK, US, Indonesia (1997)

Imports: $207 million (f.o.b., 1997)

Imports--commodities: foodstuffs, manufactures, raw materials,
fuel, machinery and transport equipment

Imports--partners: Cote d'Ivoire, Hong Kong, UK, Germany,
Netherlands, France, Belgium (1997)

Debt--external: $426 million (1995 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $45.4 million (1995)

Currency: 1 dalasi (D) = 100 butut

Exchange rates: dalasi (D) per US$1--10.947 (December 1998),
10.643 (1998), 10.200 (1997), 9.789 (1996), 9.546 (1995), 9.576
(1994)

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 11,000 (1991 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: adequate network of microwave radio relay and open wire
international: microwave radio rela