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GDP:
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purchasing power parity - $24.51 billion (2003 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate:
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-1.9% (2003 est.)
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GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $1,400 (2003 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 36.6%
industry: 19.9%
services: 43.5% (2003 est.)
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Investment (gross fixed):
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8.7% of GDP (2003)
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Population below poverty line:
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37% (1995)
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Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 3.1%
highest 10%: 28.8% (1995)
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Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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36.7 (1995)
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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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3.4% (2003 est.)
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Labor force:
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6.64 million 68% agricultural (2003)
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Unemployment rate:
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13% in urban areas (1998)
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Budget:
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revenues: $2.339 billion
expenditures: $2.749 billion, including capital expenditures of $420 million (2003 est.)
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Public debt:
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82.5% of GDP (2003)
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Industries:
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foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity
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Industrial production growth rate:
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15% (1998 est.)
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Electricity - production:
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4.605 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - production by source:
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fossil fuel: 61.9%
hydro: 38.1%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity - consumption:
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2.983 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - exports:
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1.3 billion 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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11,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - consumption:
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32,000 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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Oil - proved reserves:
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50 million bbl (1 January 2002)
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Natural gas - production:
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1.35 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - consumption:
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1.35 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - imports:
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0 cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - proved reserves:
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14.87 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
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Agriculture - products:
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coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber
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Current account balance:
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$501 million (2003)
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Exports:
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$5.299 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Exports - commodities:
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cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish
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Exports - partners:
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France 19.1%, Netherlands 17.7%, US 7.1%, Spain 5.6% (2003 est.)
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Imports:
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$2.781 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Imports - commodities:
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fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs
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Imports - partners:
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France 32.7%, Nigeria 14.4%, UK 7% (2003 est.)
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Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
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$2.005 billion (2003)
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Debt - external:
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$11.85 billion (2003 est.)
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Economic aid - recipient:
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ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)
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Currency:
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Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
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Currency code:
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XOF
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Exchange rates:
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Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 581.2 (2003), 696.988 (2002), 733.039 (2001), 711.976 (2000), 615.699 (1999)
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