The 2005 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

countries for seasonal employment (2003)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 90% (2000 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       NA%

      Population below poverty line:

       45% (2003 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: 2%

       highest 10%: 46.8% (1994)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

       48.2 (1994)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       2.4% (2004 est.)

      Investment (gross fixed):

       29.1% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $695.2 million

       expenditures: $876.3 million, including capital expenditures of NA

       (2004 est.)

      Agriculture - products:

       cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice;

       livestock

      Industries:

       cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes,

       textiles, gold

      Industrial production growth rate:

       14% (2001 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       361 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 69.9% hydro: 30.1% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       335.7 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       8,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Current account balance:

       $-471.7 million (2004 est.)

      Exports:

       $418.6 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       cotton, livestock, gold

      Exports - partners:

       China 32.1%, Singapore 11.5%, Ghana 4.7%, Bangladesh 4.3% (2004)

      Imports:

       $866.3 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       capital goods, foodstuffs, petroleum

      Imports - partners:

       France 29.3%, Cote d'Ivoire 16%, Togo 9.8% (2004)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

       $474.9 million (2004 est.)

      Debt - external:

       $1.3 billion (2000)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $484.1 million (1995)

      Currency (code):

       Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible

       authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

      Currency code:

       XOF

      Exchange rates:

       Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 528.29

       (2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002), 733.04 (2001), 711.98 (2000)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Burkina Faso

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       65,400 (2003)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       227,000 (2003)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: all services only fair

       domestic: microwave radio relay, open-wire, and radiotelephone

       communication stations

       international: country code - 226; satellite earth station - 1

       Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 3, FM 17, shortwave 3 (2002)

      Radios:

       394,020 (2000)

      Television broadcast stations:

       1 (2002)

      Televisions:

       131,340 (2002)

      Internet country code:

       .bf

      Internet hosts:

       442 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       1 (2002)

      Internet users:

       48,000 (2003)

      Transportation Burkina Faso

      Railways:

       total: 622 km

       narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge

       note:: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote D'Ivoire

       (2004)

      Highways: total: 12,506 km paved: 2,001 km unpaved: 10,505 km (1999)

      Airports: 33 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 2 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 31 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 11 under 914 m: 17 (2004 est.)

      Military Burkina Faso

      Military branches:

       Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie (2005)

      Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory military service; 20 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

      Manpower available for military service:

       males age 18–49: 2,664,572 (2005 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

       males age 18–49: 1,323,548 (2005 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $64.2 million (2004)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       1.3% (2004)

      Transnational Issues Burkina Faso

      Disputes - international:

       two villages are in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin

       accuses Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; Burkina Faso border

       regions remain a staging area for Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire rebels

       and an asylum for refugees caught in local fighting; the Ivoirian

       Government accuses Burkina Faso of sheltering Ivoirian rebels

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