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<text id=93CT1382>
<title>
Togo--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Togo
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: The economy is heavily dependent on subsistence
agriculture, which accounts for about 33% of GDP and provides
employment for 78% of the labor force. Primary agricultural
exports are cocoa, coffee, and cotton, which together account
for about 30% of total export earnings. Togo is self-sufficient
in basic foodstuffs when harvests are normal. In the industrial
sector phosphate mining is by far the most important activity,
with phosphate exports accounting for about 40% of total foreign
exchange earnings. Togo serves as a regional commercial and
trade center. The government, over the past decade, with IMF and
World Bank support, has been implementing a number of economic
reform measures to encourage foreign investment and bring
revenues in line with expenditures. Political unrest, including
private and public sector strikes throughout 1991 and 1992, has
jeopardized the reform program and has disrupted vital economic
activity.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $1.5
billion (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 0% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $400 (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.5% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 2% (1987)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $284.8 million; expenditures $407 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1991 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $512 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: phosphates, cotton, cocoa, coffee</l>
<l> partners: EC 40%, Africa 16%, US 1% (1990)</l>
<l>Imports: $583 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, food,
chemical products</l>
<l> partners: EC 57%, Africa 17%, US 5%, Japan 4% (1990)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $1.3 billion (1991)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 9.0% (1991 est.); accounts
for 20% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 179,000 kW capacity; 209 million kWh produced, 60
kWh per capita (1990)
</p>
<p>Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement,
handicrafts, textiles, beverages
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 33% of GDP; cash crops - coffee,
cocoa, cotton; food crops - yams, cassava, corn, beans, rice,
millet, sorghum; livestock production not significant; annual
fish catch, 10,000-14,000 tons
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-90), $142
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-90), $2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89),
$35 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $51 million
</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>