Electricity: capacity: 30,000 kW production: 70 million kWh consumption per capita: 64 kWh (1993)
Industries: peanut processing, tourism, beverages, agricultural machinery assembly, woodworking, metalworking, clothing
Agriculture: accounts for 30% of GDP; one-third of food requirements is imported; major export crop is peanuts; other principal crops - millet, sorghum, rice, corn, cassava, palm kernels; livestock - cattle, sheep, goats; forestry and fishing resources not fully exploited
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $93 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $535 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $39 million
Currency: 1 dalasi (D) = 100 butut
Exchange rates: dalasi (D) per US$1 - 9.565 (January 1995), 9.576 (1994), 9.129 (1993), 8.888 (1992), 8.803 (1991), 7.883 (1990)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
@The Gambia:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways: total: 3,083 km paved: 431 km unpaved: gravel, crushed stone 501 km; unimproved earth 2,151 km