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<title>
Cote d'Ivoire--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Cote d'Ivoire
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Cote d'Ivoire is among the world's largest producers
and exporters of coffee, cocoa beans, and palm-kernel oil.
Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in
international prices for coffee and cocoa and to weather
conditions. Despite attempts by the government to diversify, the
economy is still largely dependent on agriculture and related
industries. The agricultural sector accounts for over one-third
of GDP and about 80% of export earnings and employs about 85% of
the labor force. A collapse of world cocoa and coffee prices in
1986 threw the economy into a recession, from which the country
had not recovered by 1990. Continuing low prices for commodity
exports, an overvalued exchange rate, a bloated public-sector
wage bill, and a large foreign debt hindered economic recovery
in 1991. The government, which has sponsored various economic
reform programs, especially in agriculture, projected an
increase of 1.6% in GNP in 1992.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $10 billion
(1991)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: -0.6% (1991)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $800 (1991)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 14% (1985)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $2.3 billion; expenditures $3.6 billion,
including capital expenditures of $274 million (1990 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $2.8 billion (f.o.b., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: cocoa 30%, coffee 20%, tropical woods 11%,
petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton</l>
<l> partners: France, FRG, Netherlands, US, Belgium, Spain
(1985)</l>
<l>Imports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: food, capital goods, consumer goods, fuel</l>
<l> partners: France 29%, other EC 29%, Nigeria 16%, US 4%,
Japan 3% (1989)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $15 billion (1990 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 6% (1990); accounts for 11%
of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 1,210,000 kW capacity; 1,970 million kWh
produced, 150 kWh per capita (1991)
</p>
<p>Industries: foodstuffs, wood processing, oil refinery,
automobile assembly, textiles, fertilizer, beverage
</p>
<p>Agriculture: most important sector, contributing one-third to
GDP and 80% to exports; cash crops include coffee, cocoa beans,
timber, bananas, palm kernels, rubber; food crops - corn, rice,
manioc, sweet potatoes; not self-sufficient in bread grain and
dairy products
</p>
<p>Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis; mostly for local
consumption; some international drug trade; transshipment point
for Southwest Asian heroin to Europe
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $356
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $5.2 billion
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF)=100 centimes
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
per US$1 - 274.06 (January 1993), 264.69 (1992), 282.11 (1991),
272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>