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Economy
Overview: Oil has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of
the economy, providing about two-thirds of government revenues
and exports. In the early 1980s rapidly rising oil revenues
enabled Congo to finance large-scale development projects
with growth averaging 5% annually, one of the highest rates
in Africa. The world decline in oil prices, however, has
forced the government to launch an austerity program to
cope with declining receipts and mounting foreign debts.
GDP: $2.2 billion, per capita $1,000; real growth rate -3%
(1988 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5% (1988).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues $382 million; expenditures $575 million,
including capital expenditures of $118 million (1988).
Exports: $912 million (f.o.b., 1987); commodities--crude
petroleum 72%, lumber, plywood, coffee, cocoa, sugar, diamonds;
partners--US, France, other EC.
Imports: $494.4 million (c.i.f., 1987); commodities--foodstuffs,
consumer goods, intermediate manufactures, capital equipment;
partners--France, Italy, other EC, US, FRG, Spain, Japan, Brazil.
External debt: $4.5 billion (December 1988).
Industrial production: growth rate - 5.9% (1987).
Electricity: 133,000 kW capacity; 300 million kWh produced,
130 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: crude oil, cement, sawmills, brewery, sugar
mill, palm oil, soap, cigarettes.
Agriculture: accounts for 11% of GDP (including fishing
and forestry); cassava accounts for 90% of food output;
other crops--rice, corn, peanuts, vegetables; cash crops
include coffee and cocoa; forest products important export
earner; imports over 90% of food needs.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $56 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $2.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89),
$15 million; Communist countries (1970-88), $338 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.