_#_External debt: $2.2 billion (1989 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 19.9% (1989 est.); accounts for 7% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 253,000 kW capacity; 730 million kWh produced, 90 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: small local consumer goods and processing, construction, phosphate, gold, fishing
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; most production based on small subsistence farms; cotton and livestock products account for over 70% of exports; other crops—millet, rice, corn, vegetables, peanuts; livestock—cattle, sheep, and goats
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $349 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $2.65 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $92 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $190 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)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*Communications #_Railroads: 642 km 1.000-meter gauge; linked to Senegal's rail system through Kayes