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Economy
Overview: About 85% of the population live in absolute poverty.
Agriculture is mainly small-scale subsistence farming and
employs 65% of the work force. The majority of the population
does not have ready access to safe drinking water, adequate
medical care, or sufficient food. Few social assistance
programs exist, and the lack of employment opportunities
remains the most critical problem facing the economy.
GDP: $2.4 billion, per capita $380; real growth rate 0.3%
(1988 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.8% (1988).
Unemployment rate: 50% (1988 est.).
Budget: revenues $252 million; expenditures $357 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA million (1988).
Exports: $200 million (f.o.b., FY88); commodities--light
manufactures 65%, coffee 17%, other agriculture 8%, other
products 10%; partners--US 77%, France 5%, Italy 4%, FRG 3%,
other industrial 9%, less developed countries 2% (FY86).
Imports: $344 million (c.i.f., FY88); commodities--machines
and manufactures 36%, food and beverages 21%, petroleum
products 11%, fats and oils 12%, chemicals 12%; partners--US 65%,
Netherlands Antilles 6%, Japan 5%, France 4%, Canada 2%,
Asia 2% (FY86).
External debt: $820 million (December 1988).
Industrial production: growth rate -2% (FY87).
Electricity: 230,000 kW capacity; 482 million kWh produced,
75 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: sugar refining, textiles, flour milling, cement
manufacturing, bauxite mining, tourism, light assembly industries
based on imported parts.
Agriculture: accounts for 32% of GDP and employs 65% of
work force; mostly small-scale subsistence farms; commercial
crops--coffee and sugarcane; staple crops--rice, corn, sorghum,
mangoes; shortage of wheat flour.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $638 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $627 million.
Currency: gourde (plural--gourdes); 1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes.
Exchange rates: gourdes (G) per US$1--5.0 (fixed rate).
Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September.