ercentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.2% (1997)

Labor force: 1.538 million (1993 est.)

Labor force--by occupation: agriculture 65%, industry 5%, services
30% (1998 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $232 million
expenditures: $252 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997 est.)

Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement;
handicrafts, textiles, beverages

Industrial production growth rate: 13.6% (1995)

Electricity--production: 88 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 93.18%
hydro: 6.82%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 408 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 320 million kWh (1996)
note: imports electricity from Ghana

Agriculture--products: coffee, cocoa, cotton, yams, cassava
(tapioca), corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock; fish

Exports: $345 million (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa

Exports--partners: Canada 7.6%, Taiwan 7.1%, Nigeria 6.8%, South
Africa 5.2% (1996 est.)

Imports: $400 million (f.o.b., 1997)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods,
petroleum products

Imports--partners: Ghana 19.1%, France 10.8%, China 8.2%, Cameroon
6.8% (1996 est.)

Debt--external: $1.5 billion (1996)

Economic aid--recipient: $201.1 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100
centimes

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per
US$1--560.01 (December 1998), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55
(1996), 499.15 (1995), 555.20 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 47,000 (10,000 cellular telephone subscribers) (1998
est.)

Telephone system: fair system based on network of microwave radio
relay routes supplemented by open-wire lines and cellular system
domestic: microwave radio relay and open-wire lines for conventional
system; cellular system has capacity of 10,000 telephones
international: satellite earth stations--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
and 1 Symphonie

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 795,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (in addition, there are two
repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 24,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways: