Budget:
revenues: $33.6 million
expenditures: $44.8 million, including capital expenditures of
$570,000 (1991 est.)
Exports: $19 million (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: cashews, fish, peanuts, palm kernels partners: Portugal, Spain, Senegal, India, Nigeria
Imports: $56 million (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: foodstuffs, transport equipment, petroleum products, machinery and equipment partners: Portugal, Netherlands, China, Germany, Senegal
External debt: $462 million (December 1990 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate NA (1991 est.); accounts for 8% of
GDP
Electricity: capacity: 22,000 kW production: 40 million kWh consumption per capita: 37 kWh (1993)
Industries: agricultural processing, beer, soft drinks
Agriculture: accounts for over 45% of GDP, nearly 100% of exports, and 90% of employment; rice is the staple food; other crops include corn, beans, cassava, cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, and cotton; not self-sufficient in food; fishing and forestry potential not fully exploited
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $49 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $615 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $41 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $68 million
Currency: 1 Guinea-Bissauan peso (PG) = 100 centavos