The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

      GDP:

       purchasing power parity - $1.27 billion (2002 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       20% (2002 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $2,700 (2002 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 20% industry: 60% services: 20% (1999 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

       NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA%

       highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       6% (2002 est.)

      Labor force:

       NA

      Unemployment rate:

       30% (1998 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $200 million

       expenditures: $158 million, including capital expenditures of $NA

       (2001 est.)

      Industries:

       petroleum, fishing, sawmilling, natural gas

      Industrial production growth rate:

       30% (2002 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       23.56 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 94.3% hydro: 5.7% other: 0% (2001) nuclear: 0%

      Electricity - consumption:

       21.91 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       181,400 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       2,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - proved reserves:

       563.5 million bbl (37257)

      Natural gas - production:

       20 million cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

       20 million cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

       0 cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

       0 cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

       68.53 billion cu m (37257)

      Agriculture - products: coffee, cocoa, rice, yams, cassava (tapioca), bananas, palm oil nuts; livestock; timber

      Exports:

       $2.5 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       petroleum, methanol, timber, cocoa

      Exports - partners:

       US 28.3%, Spain 25.3%, China 17.4%, Canada 10.6%, France 4.9% (2002)

      Imports:

       $562 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       petroleum sector equipment, other equipment

      Imports - partners:

       US 29.1%, Spain 15.9%, UK 14.8%, France 10.4%, Norway 7.2%,

       Netherlands 4.8%, Italy 4.7% (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $248 million (2000 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $33.8 million (1995)

      Currency:

       Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible

       authority is the Bank of the Central African States

      Currency code:

       XAF

      Exchange rates:

       Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 696.99

       (2002), 733.04 (2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.7 (1999), 589.95 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       1 January - 31 December

      Communications Equatorial Guinea

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       6,000 (1998)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       300 (1998)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: poor system with adequate government services

       domestic: NA

       international: international communications from Bata and Malabo to

       African and European countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat

       (Indian Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 0, FM 3, shortwave 5 (2002)

      Radios:

       180,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       1 (2002)

      Televisions:

       4,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .gq

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       1 (2002)

      Internet users:

       900 (2002)

      Transportation Equatorial Guinea

      Railways:

       total: 0 km

      Highways:

       total: 2,880 km (1999 est.)

      Waterways:

       none

      Pipelines:

       condensate 37 km; gas 39 km; liquid natural gas 4 km; oil 24 km

       (2003)

      Ports and harbors:

       Bata, Luba, Malabo

      Merchant marine:

       total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 7,571 GRT/9,670 DWT

       ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 1, passenger/cargo 1 (2002 est.)

      Airports:

       3 (2002)

      Airports - with paved runways:

       total: 2

       2,438 to 3,047 m: 1

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2002)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 1

       under 914 m: 1 (2002)

      Military Equatorial Guinea

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy, Air Force, Rapid Intervention Force, National Police

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 116,496 (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 59,110 (2003 est.)