apital expenditures of $888
million (1994 est.)

Industries: diamond mining, sawmills, breweries, textiles,
footwear, assembly of bicycles and motorcycles

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: 100 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 20%
hydro: 80%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 100 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: cotton, coffee, tobacco, manioc (tapioca),
yams, millet, corn, bananas; timber

Exports: $182 million (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: diamonds, timber, cotton, coffee, tobacco

Exports--partners: Belgium-Luxembourg 36%, Cote d'Ivoire 5%, Spain
4%, Egypt 3%, France

Imports: $155 million (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: food, textiles, petroleum products,
machinery, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, industrial products

Imports--partners: France 30%, Cote d'Ivoire 18%, Cameroon 11%,
Germany 4%, Japan

Debt--external: $930 million (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $172.2 million (1995); note?traditional
budget subsidies from France

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: 16,867 (1992 est.)

Telephone system: fair system
domestic: network consists principally of microwave radio relay and
low-capacity, low-powered radiotelephone communication
international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 3 (including Africa No. 1 and
R. France Internationale stations located in Bangui), shortwave 1
(1998)

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: NA

Televisions: 7,500 (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 23,810 km
paved: 429 km
unpaved: 23,381 km (1995 est.)

Waterways: 800 km; traditional trade carried on by means of
shallow-draft dugouts; Oubangui is the most important river

Ports and harbors: Bangui, Nola

Airports: 52 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Airports--wit