Electricity: capacity: 30,000 kW production: 60 million kWh consumption per capita: 83 kWh (1993)
Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement, handicrafts, textiles, beverages
Agriculture: accounts for 49% of GDP; cash crops - coffee, cocoa, cotton; food crops - yams, cassava, corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock production not significant; annual fish catch of 10,000-14,000 tons
Illicit drugs: increasingly used as transit hub by heroin traffickers
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-90), $142 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-90), $2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $35 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $51 million
Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1
- 529.43 (January 1995), 555.20 (1994), 283.16 (1993), 264.69 (1992),
282.11 (1991), 272.26 (1990)
note: the official rate is pegged to the French franc, and beginning
12 January 1994, the CFA franc was devalued to CFAF 100 per French
franc from CFAF 50 at which it had been fixed since 1948
Fiscal year: calendar year
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Railroads: total: 532 km narrow gauge: 532 km 1.000-m gauge