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GDP:
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purchasing power parity - $7.301 billion (2003 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate:
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1.2% (2003 est.)
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GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $5,500 (2003 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 8.1%
industry: 48.8%
services: 43.1% (2003 est.)
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Investment (gross fixed):
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22.7% of GDP (2003)
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Population below poverty line:
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NA
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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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0.5% (2003 est.)
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Labor force:
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610,000 (2003)
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Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture 60%, industry 15%, services 25%
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Unemployment rate:
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21% (1997 est.)
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Budget:
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revenues: $1.771 billion
expenditures: $1.413 billion, including capital expenditures of $310 million (2003 est.)
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Public debt:
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31.5% of GDP (2003)
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Industries:
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petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, and gold mining; chemicals; ship repair; food and beverage; textile; lumbering and plywood; cement
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Industrial production growth rate:
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1.6% (2002 est.)
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Electricity - production:
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798.4 million kWh (2001)
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Electricity - production by source:
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fossil fuel: 34.5%
hydro: 65.5%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity - consumption:
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742.5 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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301,300 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - consumption:
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13,000 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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2.45 billion bbl (1 January 2002)
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Natural gas - production:
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80 million cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - consumption:
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80 million 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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66.47 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
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Agriculture - products:
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cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical softwood); fish
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Current account balance:
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$-101 million (2003)
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Exports:
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$2.891 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Exports - commodities:
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crude oil 77%, timber, manganese, uranium (2001)
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Exports - partners:
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US 51.4%, France 8.7%, China 7.4%, Japan 4% (2003 est.)
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Imports:
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$1.079 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Imports - commodities:
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machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, construction materials
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Imports - partners:
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France 49.7%, US 5.2%, UK 4.5% (2003 est.)
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Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
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$201.9 million (2003)
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Debt - external:
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$3.284 billion (2003 est.)
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Economic aid - recipient:
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$331 million (1995)
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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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