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

and other adjustments in line with IMF policies.

      GDP (purchasing power parity):

       $7.966 billion (2004 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       1.9% (2004 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $5,900 (2004 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 7.4% industry: 46.7% services: 45.9% (2004 est.)

      Labor force:

       650,000 (2004 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 60%, industry 15%, services 25%

      Unemployment rate:

       21% (1997 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

       NA

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA

       highest 10%: NA

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       1.5% (2004 est.)

      Investment (gross fixed):

       21.8% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $2.129 billion

       expenditures: $1.64 billion, including capital expenditures of $310

       million (2004 est.)

      Public debt:

       29.3% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Agriculture - products:

       cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical

       softwood); fish

      Industries:

       petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, and gold mining;

       chemicals; ship repair; food and beverage; textile; lumbering and

       plywood; cement

      Industrial production growth rate:

       1.6% (2002 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       1.161 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 34.5% hydro: 65.5% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       1.08 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       264,900 bbl/day (2004 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       13,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Oil - proved reserves:

       2.022 billion bbl (2004 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

       80 million cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

       80 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:

       66.47 billion cu m (2004)

      Current account balance:

       $196.8 million (2004 est.)

      Exports:

       $3.71 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       crude oil 77%, timber, manganese, uranium (2001)

      Exports - partners:

       US 53.3%, China 8.5%, France 7.4% (2004)

      Imports:

       $1.225 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, construction

       materials

      Imports - partners:

       France 43.8%, US 6.3%, UK 5.9%, Netherlands 4% (2004)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

       $268.6 million (2004 est.)

      Debt - external:

       $3.804 billion (2004 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $331 million (1995)

      Currency (code):

       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 - 528.29

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

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Gabon

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       38,400 (2003)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       300,000 (2003)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: adequate service by African standards and

       improving with the help of the growing mobile cell system

       domestic: adequate system of cable, microwave radio relay,

       tropospheric scatter, radiotelephone communication stations, and a

       domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations

       international: country code - 241; satellite earth stations - 3

       Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); fiber optic submarine cable (SAT-3/WASC)

       provides connectivity to Europe and Asia

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 6, FM 7 (and 11 repeaters), shortwave 4 (2001)

      Radios:

       208,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       4 (plus four low-power repeaters) (2001)

      Televisions:

       63,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .ga

      Internet hosts:

       93 (2004)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       1 (2001)

      Internet users:

       35,000 (2003)

      Transportation Gabon

      Railways: total: 814 km standard gauge: 814 km 1.435-m gauge (2004)

      Highways: total: 8,464 km paved: 838 km unpaved: 7,626 km (2000 est.)

      Waterways:

       1,600 km (310 km on Ogooue River) (2003)

      Pipelines:

       gas 210 km; oil 1,385 km (2004)

      Ports