Statistics
GDP: purchasing power parity - $3.007 billion (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 4% (2007 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $700 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 55%
industry: 20%
services: 25% (2001 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 0.7%
highest 10%: 47.7% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.9% (2007 est.)
Labor force: 1.857 million (2006)
Unemployment rate: 8% (23% for Bangui) (2001 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $250 million
expenditures: $273 million (2007 est.)
Industries: diamond mining, sawmills, breweries, textiles, footwear, assembly of bicycles and motorcycles
Industrial production growth rate: 3% (2002)
Electricity - production: 109 million kWh (2005)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 19.05%
hydro: 80.95%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 101.4 million kWh (2005)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2005)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2005)
Agriculture - products: cotton, coffee, tobacco, manioc (tapioca), yams, millet, maize, bananas; timber
Exports: $146.7 million (f.o.b., 2007 est.)
Exports - commodities: diamonds, timber, cotton, coffee, tobacco
Exports - partners: Canada 38.8%, Belgium 15.5%, Indonesia 6.5%, Italy 5.2%, France 4.8%, Spain 4.7%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 4.6% (2007)
Imports: $237.3 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities: food, textiles, petroleum products, machinery, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, industrial products
Imports - partners: France 16.2%, Netherlands 12.7%, Cameroon 9.5%, United States 6.2% (2007)
Debt - external: $1.153 billion (2007 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $95.29 million; note - traditional budget subsidies from France (2005 est.)
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 481.8 (2007), 522.59 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003
Fiscal year: calendar year
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