Electricity: capacity: 5,000 kW production: 17 million kWh consumption per capita: 105 kWh (1993)
Industries: light construction, shirts, soap, beer, fisheries, shrimp processing
Agriculture: accounts for 25% of GDP; dominant sector of economy,
primary source of exports; cash crops - cocoa, coconuts, palm kernels,
coffee; food products - bananas, papaya, beans, poultry, fish; not
self-sufficient in food grain and meat
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $8 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $89 million
Currency: 1 dobra (Db) = 100 centimos
Exchange rates: dobras (Db) per US$1 - 129.59 (1 July 1993), 230 (1992), 260.0 (November 1991), 122.48 (December 1988), 72.827 (1987)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Sao Tome And Principe:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways: total: 300 km paved: 200 km unpaved: 100 km note: roads on Principe are mostly unpaved and in need of repair