Exports: $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: cocoa 30%, coffee 20%, tropical woods 11%, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton partners: France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Burkina, US, Belgium, UK (1992)
Imports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: food, capital goods, consumer goods, fuel partners: France, Nigeria, Japan, Netherlands, US (1992)
External debt: $17.3 billion (1993 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 0% (1993 est.); accounts for 20% of
GDP, including petroleum
Electricity: capacity: 1,170,000 kW production: 1.8 billion kWh consumption per capita: 123 kWh (1993)
Industries: foodstuffs, wood processing, oil refining, automobile assembly, textiles, fertilizer, beverages
Agriculture: most important sector, contributing one-third to GDP and
80% to exports; cash crops include coffee, cocoa beans, timber,
bananas, palm kernels, rubber; food crops - corn, rice, manioc, sweet
potatoes; not self-sufficient in bread grain and dairy products
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis; mostly for local
consumption; some international drug trade; transshipment point for
Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin to Europe and occasionally to the
US
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $356 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $5.2 billion
Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes