Agriculture—products: coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums), bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; livestock
Exports: $82.1 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Exports—commodities: coffee 55%, tea 21%, hides, tin ore (1997)
Exports—partners: Brazil 49%, Germany 16%, US, Netherlands, UK (1996)
Imports: $326 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Imports—commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, steel,
petroleum products, cement and construction material (1997)
Imports—partners: Italy, Kenya, Tanzania, US, Belgium-Luxembourg
(1997)
Debt—external: $1.2 billion (1998)
Economic aid—recipient: $711.2 million (1995); note?since 1994, World Bank financing to Rwanda has totaled more than $120 million; in June 1998, Rwanda signed an Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) with the IMF; in summer 1998, Rwanda presented its policy objectives and development priorities to donor governments resulting in multi-year pledges in the amount of $250 million
Currency: 1 Rwandan franc (RF) = 100 centimes