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GDP:
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purchasing power parity - $10.67 billion (2003 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate:
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15% (2003 est.)
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GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $1,200 (2003 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 32.4%
industry: 18.8%
services: 48.8% (2003 est.)
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Investment (gross fixed):
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40.3% of GDP (2003)
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Population below poverty line:
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80% (2001 est.)
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Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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6% (2003 est.)
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Labor force:
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NA (2002)
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Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture more than 80% (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing)
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Unemployment rate:
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NA (2000)
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Budget:
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revenues: $591.2 million
expenditures: $680.9 million, including capital expenditures of $146 million (2003 est.)
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Industries:
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oil, cotton textiles, meatpacking, beer brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials
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Industrial production growth rate:
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5% (1995)
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Electricity - production:
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94.04 million kWh (2001)
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Electricity - production by source:
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fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity - consumption:
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87.46 million kWh (2001)
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Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2001)
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Electricity - imports:
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0 kWh (2001)
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Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - consumption:
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1,500 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - exports:
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NA (2001)
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Oil - imports:
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NA (2001)
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Agriculture - products:
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cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels
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Current account balance:
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$-474 million (2003)
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Exports:
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$365 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Exports - commodities:
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cotton, cattle, gum arabic
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Exports - partners:
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US 24.2%, Germany 16.5%, Portugal 15.4%, France 6.6%, Nigeria 5.5%, Morocco 4.4% (2003 est.)
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Imports:
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$760 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Imports - commodities:
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machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles
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Imports - partners:
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France 25.8%, US 18.7%, Cameroon 13.2%, Nigeria 6.8%, Netherlands 4.2% (2003 est.)
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Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
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$191.8 million (2003)
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Debt - external:
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$1.1 billion (2000 est.)
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Economic aid - recipient:
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$238.3 million; note - $125 million committed by Taiwan (August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank; ODA $150 million (2001 est.)
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Currency:
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Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States
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Currency code:
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XAF
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Exchange rates:
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Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 581.2 (2003), 696.988 (2002), 733.039 (2001), 711.976 (2000), 615.699 (1999)
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Fiscal year:
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calendar year
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