Inflation rate (consumer prices): 22% (1993 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $68 million
expenditures: $118 million, including capital expenditures of $28
million (1992 est.)
Exports: $149 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: rutile 48%, bauxite 25%, diamonds 16%, coffee, cocoa,
fish
partners: US, UK, Belgium, Germany, other Western Europe
Imports: $149 million (c.i.f., 1993) commodities: foodstuffs 48%, machinery and equipment 32%, fuels 9% partners: US, EC countries, Japan, China, Nigeria
External debt: $1.15 billion (yearend 1993)
Industrial production: growth rate -1.5% (FY91/92); accounts for 11% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 130,000 kW production: 220 million kWh consumption per capita: 44 kWh (1993)
Industries: mining (diamonds, bauxite, rutile), small-scale manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear), petroleum refinery
Agriculture: largely subsistence farming; cash crops - coffee, cocoa,
palm kernels; harvests of food staple rice meets 80% of domestic
needs; annual fish catch averages 53,000 metric tons