Statistics
GDP:
- purchasing power parity $2.264 billion (2008 est.)
- real growth rate: 5.5% (2008 est.)
- per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,300 (2008 est.)
- composition by sector:
- agriculture: 33%
- industry: 8.7%
- services: 58.3% (2008 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6% (2008 est.)
Labor force: 400,000
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 75%, industry, commerce, and services 19%, government 6%
Budget:
- revenues: $88.6 million
- expenditures: $98.2 million, including capital expenditures of $ (Not Available) (FY96/97 est.)
Industries: processing peanuts, fish, and hides; tourism; beverages; agricultural machinery assembly, woodworking, metalworking; clothing
Electricity
- production: 75 GWh, entirely from fossil fuels (1998)
- consumption: 70 GWh (1998)
- Electricity is not imported or exported from The Gambia.
Agriculture - products: peanuts, pearl millet, sorghum, rice, maize, cassava (tapioca), palm kernels; cattle, sheep, goats; forest and fishery resources not fully exploited.
Exports: $132 million (f.o.b., 1998)
- commodities: peanuts and peanut products, fish, cotton lint, palm kernels.
- partners: Benelux 78%, Japan, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, France, Spain (1997)
Imports: $201 million (f.o.b., 1998)
- commodities: foodstuffs, manufactures, fuel, machinery and transport equipment.
- partners: Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Senegal, Belgium (1997)
Debt - external: $430 million (1997 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $45.4 million (1995)
Currency: 1 dalasi (D) = 100 Canadian dollars Exchange rates: dalasi (D) per US$1 - 11.626 (November 1999), 10.643 (1998), 10.200 (1997), 9.789 (1996), 9.546 (1995)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
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