commodities—foodstuffs, consumer goods, intermediate manufactures, capital equipment;
partners—France, Italy, other EC, US, FRG, Spain, Japan, Brazil
_#_External debt: $4.5 billion (December 1988)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 1.2% (1989); accounts for 33% of GDP, including petroleum
_#_Electricity: 133,000 kW capacity; 300 million kWh produced, 130 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: crude oil, cement, sawmills, brewery, sugar mill, palm oil, soap, cigarettes
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP (including fishing and forestry); cassava accounts for 90% of food output; other crops—rice, corn, peanuts, vegetables; cash crops include coffee and cocoa; forest products important export earner; imports over 90% of food needs
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $60 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $2.2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $15 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $338 million
_#_Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (plural—francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
_#_Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1—256.54 (January 1991), 272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85 (1988), 300.54 (1987), 346.30 (1986), 449.26 (1985)