The 2010 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

growth rate:

      2% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 148 −1.6% (2009 est.)

      10.7% (2008 est.)

      GDP - per capita (PPP):

      $1,800 (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 192 $1,800 (2009 est.)

      $1,800 (2008 est.)

      note: data are in 2010 US dollars

      GDP - composition by sector:

      agriculture: 50.5%

      industry: 7%

      services: 42.5% (2010 est.)

      Labor force:

      4.293 million (2007) country comparison to the world: 83

      Labor force - by occupation:

      agriculture: 80% (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing)

      industry and services: 20% (2006 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

      NA% est.)

      Population below poverty line:

      80% (2001 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: 2.6%

      highest 10%: 30.8% (2003)

      Investment (gross fixed):

      14.8% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 131

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      4% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 114 10% (2009 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      4.25% (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 93 4.75% (31 December 2008)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      NA% (31 December 2009 est.)

      NA% (31 December 2008 est.)

      Stock of narrow money:

      $920.9 million (31 December 2010 est) country comparison to the world: 139 $937.8 million (31 December 2009 est)

      Stock of broad money:

      $1.257 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 154 $1.008 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $943.8 million (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 151 $566.9 million (31 December 2009 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $NA

      Agriculture - products:

      cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels

      Industries:

      oil, cotton textiles, meatpacking, brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials

      Industrial production growth rate:

      3% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 114

      Electricity - production:

      100 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 190

      Electricity - consumption:

      93 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 191

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2008 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2008 est.)

      Oil - production:

      115,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 51

      Oil - consumption:

      1,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 204

      Oil - exports:

      157,900 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 54

      Oil - imports:

      1,571 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 179

      Oil - proved reserves:

      1.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 38

      Natural gas - production:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 185

      Natural gas - consumption:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 197

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 189

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 191

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 192

      Current account balance:

      -$2.6 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 163 -$2.305 billion (2009 est.)

      Exports:

      $3.036 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 123 $2.709 billion (2009 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      oil, cattle, cotton, gum arabic

      Exports - partners:

      US 90.06%, France 4.81%, China 1.6% (2009)

      Imports:

      $2.631 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 143 $2.539 billion (2009 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, foodstuffs, textiles

      Imports - partners:

      France 17.74%, Cameroon 12.7%, China 11.23%, US 7.59%, Italy 6.54%,

       Ukraine 5.33%, Netherlands 4.37% (2009)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $868 million (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 112 $685 million (31 December 2009 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $NA (31 December 2010 est.)

      $1.749 billion (31 December 2008 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $NA (31 December 2010)

      $4.5 billion (2006 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $NA

      Exchange rates:

      Cooperation Financiere en Afrique Centrale francs 506.04 (2010), 472.19 (2009), 447.81 (2008), 480.1 (2007), 522.59 (2006)

      Communications ::Chad

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      13,000 (2009) country comparison to the world: 198

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      2.686 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 119

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: inadequate system of radiotelephone communication stations with high costs and low telephone density

      domestic: fixed-line connections for only about 1 per 1000 persons coupled with mobile-cellular