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Economy
Overview: Mali is among the poorest countries in the world,
with about 80% of its land area desert or semidesert. Economic
activity is largely confined to the riverine area irrigated
by the Niger. About 10% of the population lives as nomads
and some 80% of the labor force is engaged in agriculture
and fishing. Industrial activity is concentrated on processing
farm commodities.
GDP: $1.94 billion, per capita $220; real growth rate -0.9%
(1988 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA% (1987).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues $338 million; expenditures $559 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1987).
Exports: $260 million (f.o.b., 1987); commodities--livestock,
peanuts, dried fish, cotton, skins; partners--mostly franc
zone and Western Europe.
Imports: $493 million (f.o.b., 1987); commodities--textiles,
vehicles, petroleum products, machinery, sugar, cereals;
partners--mostly franc zone and Western Europe.
External debt: $2.1 billion (December 1988 est.).
Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
Electricity: 92,000 kW capacity; 165 million kWh produced,
20 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: small local consumer goods and processing, construction,
phosphate, gold, fishing.
Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; most production based
on small subsistence farms; cotton and livestock products
account for over 70% of exports; other crops--millet, rice,
corn, vegetables, peanuts; livestock--cattle, sheep, and goats.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $313 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $2.4 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89),
$92 million; Communist countries (1970-88), $190 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.