processing, soap,
cigarettes, textiles, gold
Industrial production growth rate: 4.2% (1995)
Electricity - production: 225 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 64.44%
hydro: 35.56%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 209 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, cotton, sorghum,
millet, corn, rice; livestock
Exports: $311 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Exports - commodities: cotton, animal products, gold
Exports - partners: Cote d'Ivoire, Taiwan, France, Colombia, Italy,
Mali
Imports: $572 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery, food products, petroleum
Imports - partners: Cote d'Ivoire, France, Senegal, Togo, Nigeria, US
Debt - external: $1.3 billion (1997)
Economic aid - recipient: $484.1 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100
centimes
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1
- 647.25 (January 2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997),
511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995)
note: since 1 January 1999, the CFAF franc is pegged to the euro at a
rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Burkina Faso:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 30,000 (1995)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (1995)
Telephone system: all services only fair
domestic: microwave radio relay, open wire, and radiotelephone
communication stations
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 17, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 370,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)
Televisions: 100,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (1999)
@Burkina Faso:Transportation
Railways:
total: 622 km (517 km from Ouagadougou to the Cote d'Ivoire border and
105 km from Ouagadougou to Kaya)
narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)
Highways:
total: 12,506 km
paved: 2,001 km
unpaved: 10,505 km (1996 est.)
Ports and harbors: none
Airports: 33 (1999 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 2
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (1999 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 31
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 16 (1999 est.)
@Burkina Faso:Military
Military branches: Army, Air Force, National
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