Unemployment rate:
21% (1997 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.771 billion
expenditures: $1.413 billion, including capital expenditures of $310
million (2003 est.)

Public debt:
31.5% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products:
cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical
softwood); fish

Industries:
petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, and gold mining;
chemicals; ship repair; food and beverage; textile; lumbering and
plywood; cement

Industrial production growth rate:
1.6% (2002 est.)

Electricity - production:
798.4 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
742.5 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)