eforms
led to a jump in growth to 6% annually in 1996-98. Growth may slow
in 1999-2000 because of the difficulty of meeting the conditions of
international donors and continued low prices of key exports.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$24.2 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 6% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$1,680 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 31%
industry: 20%
services: 49% (1995)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 28.5% (1988)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6% (1998 est.)

Labor force: NA

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $2.3 billion
expenditures: $2.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $640
million (1997 est.)

Industries: foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining,
automobile assembly, textiles, fertilizer, construction materials,
electricity

Industrial production growth rate: 15% (annual rate, first half
1998)

Electricity--production: 1.88 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 22%
hydro: 47%
nuclear: 0%
other: 31% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 1.88 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels,
corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber;
timber

Exports: $4.3 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: cocoa 36%, coffee, tropical woods,
petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton, fish

Exports--partners: Netherlands 17%, France 15%, Germany 7%, US 6%,
Italy 5% (1997)

Imports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel,
transport equipment

Imports--partners: France 28%, Nigeria 20%, US 6%, Italy 5%,
Germany 4% (1997)

Debt--external: $16.8 billion (1998 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)

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

Exchange rates: CFA francs (CFAF) per US$1--560.01 (January 1999),
589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995), 555.20
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 200,000 (1988 est.)

Telephone system: well-developed by African standards but
operating well below capacity
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