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- Economy
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- Overview: The economic and social infrastructure is not
- well developed. Subsistence agriculture dominates the economy,
- generating about one-third of GDP and employing about two-thirds
- of the working population. Manufacturing accounts for less
- than 10% of GDP, consisting mainly of the processing of
- raw materials and of light manufacturing for the domestic
- market. Diamond mining provides an important source of hard
- currency. The economy suffers from high unemployment, rising
- inflation, large trade deficits, and a growing dependency
- on foreign assistance.
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- GDP: $965 million, per capita $250; real growth rate 1.8% (FY87).
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- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 42% (September 1988).
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- Unemployment rate: NA%.
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- Budget: revenues $86 million; expenditures $128 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (FY90 est.).
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- Exports: $106 million (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--rutile 50%,
- bauxite 17%, cocoa 11%, diamonds 3%, coffee 3%; partners--US,
- UK, Belgium, FRG, other Western Europe.
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- Imports: $167 million (c.i.f., 1988); commodities--capital
- goods 40%, food 32%, petroleum 12%, consumer goods 7%, light
- industrial goods; partners--US, EC, Japan, China, Nigeria.
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- External debt: $805 million (1989 est.).
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- Industrial production: growth rate -19% (FY88 est.).
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- Electricity: 83,000 kW capacity; 180 million kWh produced,
- 45 kWh per capita (1989).
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- Industries: mining (diamonds, bauxite, rutile), small-scale
- manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear),
- petroleum refinery.
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- Agriculture: accounts for over 30% of GDP and two-thirds
- of the labor force; largely subsistence farming; cash crops--
- coffee, cocoa, palm kernels; harvests of food staple rice meets
- 80% of domestic needs; annual fish catch averages 53,000
- metric tons.
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- Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $149 million;
- Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
- (1970-87), $698 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $18
- million; Communist countries (1970-88), $101 million.
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- Currency: leone (plural--leones); 1 leone (Le) = 100 cents.
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- Exchange rates: leones per US$1--87.7193 (January 1990),
- 58.1395 (1989), 31.2500 (1988), 30.7692 (1987), 8.3963 (1986),
- 4.7304 (1985).
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- Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June.
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