Budget:
revenues: $876 million
expenditures: $197.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996 est.)
Industries: agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining,
petroleum refining, construction materials
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity: capacity: 230,000 kW production: 720 million kWh consumption per capita: 79 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: peanuts, millet, corn, sorghum, rice, cotton,
tomatoes, green vegetables; cattle, poultry, pigs; fish catch of
409,000 metric tons in 1992
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast
Asian heroin moving to Europe and North America; illicit cultivator
of cannabis
Exports: $940 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: fish, ground nuts (peanuts), petroleum products,
phosphates, cotton
partners: France, other EU countries, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali
Imports: $1.1 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: foods and beverages, consumer goods, capital goods,
petroleum
partners: France, other EU countries, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire,
Algeria, China, Japan
External debt: $3.8 billion (1993)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $439 million (1993)