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

      NA

      Unemployment rate:

      30% (1998 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

      NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%

      Investment (gross fixed):

      37.9% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Budget:

      revenues: $4.963 billion expenditures: $2.494 billion (2007 est.)

      Fiscal year:

      calendar year

      Public debt:

      1.6% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      6% (2007 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      5.25% (31 December 2007)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      15% (31 December 2007)

      Stock of money:

      $835.2 million (31 December 2007)

      Stock of quasi money:

      $174.5 million (31 December 2007)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      NA

      Agriculture - products:

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

      Industries:

      petroleum, fishing, sawmilling, natural gas

      Industrial production growth rate:

      10.1% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      27 million kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      25.11 million kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 94.3% hydro: 5.7% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      368,500 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      918.3 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      375,400 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      1,070 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      1.1 billion 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:

      36.81 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

      Current account balance:

      $415 million (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $9.904 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      petroleum, methanol, timber, cocoa

      Exports - partners:

      US 20.6%, China 18.8%, Spain 13.9%, Taiwan 13.4%, France 7.5%, Japan 6.5%, Portugal 6.4% (2007)

      Imports:

      $3.083 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      petroleum sector equipment, other equipment

      Imports - partners:

      US 19.6%, Spain 13.7%, Cote d'Ivoire 11.9%, France 9.6%, China 7.7%,

       Italy 6.6%, UK 6.4%, Netherlands 4.1% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $39 million (2005)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $3.846 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $338 million (31 December 2007 est.)

      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 - 481.83 (2007), 522.4 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003)

      Communications

       Equatorial Guinea

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      10,000 (2005)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      220,000 (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: digital fixed-line network in most major urban areas and good mobile coverage domestic: fixed-line density is about 2 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscribership has been increasing and in 2007 stood at about 40 percent of the population international: country code - 240; international communications from Bata and Malabo to African and European countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 0, FM 3, shortwave 5 (2001)

      Radios:

      180,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      1 (2001)

      Televisions:

      4,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

      .gq

      Internet hosts:

      9 (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      1 (2002)

      Internet users:

      8,000 (2006)

      Transportation

       Equatorial Guinea

      Airports:

      5 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 5 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 2 (2007)

      Pipelines:

      condensate 42 km; condensate/gas 5 km; gas 80 km; oil 54 km (2007)

      Roadways:

      total: 2,880 km (2000)