National product real growth rate: 5.5% (1994 est.)
National product per capita: $700 (1994 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 40% (1994 est.)
Unemployment rate: 30% (1988 est.) in Bangui
Budget:
revenues: $175 million
expenditures: $312 million, including capital expenditures of $122
million (1991 est.)
Exports: $123.5 million (f.o.b., 1992)
commodities: diamonds, timber, cotton, coffee, tobacco
partners: France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, US
Imports: $165.1 million (f.o.b., 1992)
commodities: food, textiles, petroleum products, machinery, electrical
equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods,
industrial products
partners: France, other EC countries, Japan, Algeria
External debt: $859 million (1991)
Industrial production: growth rate 4% (1990 est.); accounts for 14% of
GDP
Electricity: capacity: 40,000 kW production: 100 million kWh consumption per capita: 29 kWh (1993)