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GDP:
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purchasing power parity - $10.53 billion (2003 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate:
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0.5% (2003 est.)
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GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $900 (2003 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 45%
industry: 17%
services: 38% (2001 est.)
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Population below poverty line:
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64% average; 30% of the total population living in urban areas; 70% of the total population living in rural areas) (2001 est.)
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Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 1.8%
highest 10%: 40.4% (1994)
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Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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50.5 (1994)
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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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4.5% (2002 est.)
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Labor force:
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3.93 million (2001 est.)
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Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture and fishing 80% (2001 est.)
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Unemployment rate:
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14.6% urban areas; 5.3% rural areas (2001 est.)
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Budget:
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revenues: $764 million
expenditures: $828 million, including capital expenditures of NA (2002 est.)
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Industries:
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food processing; construction; phosphate and gold mining
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Industrial production growth rate:
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NA (FY96/97)
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Electricity - production:
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480.2 million kWh (2001)
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Electricity - production by source:
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fossil fuel: 41.7%
hydro: 58.3%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity - consumption:
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446.6 million kWh (2001)
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Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh; note - recent hydropower developments may be providing electricity to Senegal and Mauritania (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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4,000 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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Agriculture - products:
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cotton, millet, rice, corn, vegetables, peanuts; cattle, sheep, goats
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Exports:
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$915 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)
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Exports - commodities:
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cotton, gold, livestock
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Exports - partners:
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Thailand 14.2%, China 12.3%, India 8%, Italy 7.5%, UK 6.1% (2003 est.)
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Imports:
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$927 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)
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Imports - commodities:
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petroleum, machinery and equipment, construction materials, foodstuffs, textiles
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Imports - partners:
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France 15.5%, Senegal 7.8%, Cote d'Ivoire 7.2% (2003 est.)
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Debt - external:
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$3.3 billion (2000)
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Economic aid - recipient:
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$596.4 million (2001)
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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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Fiscal year:
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calendar year
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