The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

      Investment (gross fixed):

      8.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Budget:

      revenues: $3.884 billion expenditures: $4.106 billion (2007 est.)

      Fiscal year:

      calendar year

      Public debt:

      75.2% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      1.9% (2007 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      4.25% (31 December 2007)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      NA

      Stock of money:

      $4.451 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of quasi money:

      $1.915 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $4.404 billion (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber

      Industries:

      foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity, ship construction and repair

      Industrial production growth rate:

      −1.8% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      5.274 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      3.177 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      1.066 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 61.9% hydro: 38.1% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      54,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      25,950 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      84,940 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      71,850 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      100 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      1.3 billion cu m (2006 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      1.3 billion cu m (2006 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

      Current account balance:

      -$146 million (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $8.476 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish

      Exports - partners:

      Germany 9.7%, Nigeria 9.2%, Netherlands 8.4%, France 7.3%, US 7%,

       Burkina Faso 4.4% (2007)

      Imports:

      $5.932 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs

      Imports - partners:

      Nigeria 31.1%, France 16.7%, China 7.3% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      ODA, $60 million (2007 est.)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $2.519 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $13.79 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $NA

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $NA

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $4.155 billion (2006)

      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 - 481.83 (2007), 522.89 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003) note: since 1 January 1999, the XOF franc has been pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF francs per euro

      Communications

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      Telephones - main lines in use:

      730,000 (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      7.05 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: well developed by African standards; telecommunications sector privatized in late 1990s and operational fixed-lines have more than quadrupled since that time; with multiple cellular service providers competing in the market, cellular usage has increased sharply to roughly 40 per 100 persons domestic: open-wire lines and microwave radio relay; 90% digitalized international: country code - 225; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 3 (1998)

      Radios:

      2.26 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      14 (1998)

      Televisions:

      1.09 million (2000)

      Internet country code:

      .ci

      Internet hosts:

      5,569 (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      5 (2001)

      Internet users:

      300,000 (2006)

      Transportation

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      Airports:

      34 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways: