Budget:
revenues: $1.2 billion
expenditures: $1.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $269
million (1992 est.)
Exports: $904 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
commodities: fish, ground nuts (peanuts), petroleum products,
phosphates, cotton
partners: France, other EC countries, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali
Imports: $1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
commodities: foods and beverages, consumer goods, capital goods,
petroleum
partners: France, other EC countries, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria,
China, Japan
External debt: $2.9 billion (1990)
Industrial production: growth rate 1.9% (1991); accounts for 15% of
GDP
Electricity: capacity: 230,000 kW production: 720 million kWh consumption per capita: 79 kWh (1993)
Industries: agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining, petroleum refining, building materials
Agriculture: accounts for 20% of GDP; major products - peanuts (cash crop), millet, corn, sorghum, rice, cotton, tomatoes, green vegetables; estimated two-thirds self-sufficient in food; fish catch of 354,000 metric tons in 1990
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian
heroin moving to Europe and North America
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $551 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $5.23 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $589 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $295 million