_#_GDP: $942 million, per capita $500; real growth rate 3.5% (1989 est.)
_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.2% (1989 est.)
_#_Unemployment rate: 21% (1989 est.)
_#_Budget: revenues $280 million; expenditures $346 million, including capital expenditures of $61 million (1989 est.)
_#_Exports: $519 million (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities—iron ore, processed fish, small amounts of gum arabic and gypsum, unrecorded but numerically significant cattle exports to Senegal;
partners—EC 57%, Japan 39%, Ivory Coast 2%
_#_Imports: $567 million (c.i.f., 1989);
commodities—foodstuffs, consumer goods, petroleum products, capital goods;
partners—EC 79%, Africa 5%, US 4%, Japan 2%