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Economy
Overview: The climate, geographic location, and lack of
infrastructure and natural resources potential make Chad
one of the most underdeveloped countries in the world. Its
economy is slowly recovering from the ravaging effects of
prolonged civil war, conflict with Libya, drought, and food
shortages. In 1986 real GDP returned to its 1977 level,
with cotton, the major cash crop, accounting for 43% of
exports. Over 80% of the work force is employed in subsistence
farming and fishing. Industry is based almost entirely on
the processing of agricultural products, including cotton,
sugarcane, and cattle. Chad is still highly dependent on
foreign aid, with its economy in trouble and many regions
suffering from shortages.
GDP: $902 million, per capita $190; real growth rate 7.0% (1988).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): -3.0% (1987).
Unemployment rate: NA.
Budget: revenues $61 million; expenditures $85 million,
including capital expenditures of NA (1988 est.).
Exports: $432 million (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--cotton
43%, cattle 35%, textiles 5%, fish; partners--France, Nigeria,
Cameroon.
Imports: $214 million (c.i.f., 1988); commodities--machinery
and transportation equipment 39%, industrial goods 20%,
petroleum products 13%, foodstuffs 9%; partners--US, France.
External debt: $360 million (December 1989).
Industrial production: growth rate -7.0% (1986).
Electricity: 38,000 kW capacity; 70 million kWh produced,
14 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: cotton textile mills, slaughterhouses, brewery,
natron (sodium carbonate).
Agriculture: accounts for 45% of GDP; largely subsistence farming;
cotton most important cash crop; food crops include sorghum, millet,
peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc; livestock--cattle, sheep, goats,
camels; self-sufficient in food in years of adequate rainfall.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $178 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $1.2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $28 million;
Communist countries (1970-88), $71 million.
Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (plural--francs);
1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes.
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
per US$1--287.99 (January 1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85 (1988),
300.54 (1987), 346.30 (1986), 449.26 (1985).
Fiscal year: calendar year.