Statistics
GDP: purchasing power parity - $21.44 billion (2008 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.6% (2008 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $14,400 (2008 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 5.7%
industry: 57.2%
services: 37% (2008 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (2008 est.)
Labour force: 592,000 (2008 est.)
Labour force - by occupation: agriculture 60%, services and government 25%, industry and commerce 15% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate: 21% (2006 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $4.46 billion
expenditures: $2.75 billion (2008 est.)
Industries: food and beverage; textile; lumbering and plywood; cement; petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, uranium, and gold mining; chemical production; ship repair
Industrial production growth rate: 1.5% (2008)
Oil - production 244,000 bbl/d (38,800 m3/d) (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption 13,170 bbl/d (2,094 m3/d) (2007 est.)
Oil - exports 255,000 bbl/d (40,500 m3/d) (2005 est.)
Oil - imports 2,485 bbl/d (395.1 m3/d) (2005 est.)
Oil - proven reserves 2 billion barrels (320×106 m3) (1 January 2008 est.)
Natural gas - production 100 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas - consumption 100 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas - exports 0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports 0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proven reserves 28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)
Electricity - production: 1.671 TWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 27.8%
hydro: 72.2%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 1.365 GWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical softwood); fish
Current account - balance $591 million (2010 est.)
Currency: 1 Communauté financière africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Communauté financière africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 – 507.71 (2010), 472.19 (2009), 447.81 (2008), 481.83 (2007), 522.89 (2006), 647.25 (January 2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995)
note: since 1 January 1999, the CFAF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro
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