Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $376 million
expenditures: $697 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1992 est.)
Exports: $415 million (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: cotton, livestock, gold partners: mostly franc zone and Western Europe
Imports: $842 million (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, construction materials, petroleum, textiles partners: mostly franc zone and Western Europe
External debt: $2.6 billion (1991 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate -1.4% (1992 est.); accounts for 13.0% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 90,000 kW production: 310 million kWh consumption per capita: 33 kWh (1993)
Industries: minor local consumer goods production and food processing, construction, phosphate and gold mining
Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; mostly subsistence farming; cotton and livestock products account for over 70% of exports; other crops - millet, rice, corn, vegetables, peanuts; livestock - cattle, sheep, goats
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $349 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $3.02 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $92 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $190 million