_#_Imports: $344 million (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities—food, fuels, durable consumer goods, other intermediate goods, capital goods;
partners—EC 61%, US 6%, Africa 4%, Japan 4%, other 25% (1989)
_#_External debt: $1.3 billion (1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 4.9% (1987 est.); 6% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 179,000 kW capacity; 209 million kWh produced, 60 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement, handicrafts, textiles, beverages
_#_Agriculture: cash crops—coffee, cocoa, cotton; food crops—yams, cassava, corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock production not significant; annual fish catch, 10,000-14,000 tons
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $132 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $1.8 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $35 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $51 million
_#_Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (plural—francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes