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<text>
<title>
Mayotte (FR): Economy
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Mayotte
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Economic activity is based primarily on the agricultural
sector, including fishing and livestock raising. Mayotte is not
self-sufficient and must import a large portion of its food
requirements, mainly from France. The economy and future development
of the island are heavily dependent on French financial assistance.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP $NA
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: NA%
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $NA
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $37.3 million, including capital
expenditures of $NA (1985)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $4.0 million (f.o.b., 1984)</l>
<l> commodities: ylang-ylang, vanilla</l>
<l> partners: France 79%, Comoros 10%, Reunion 9%</l>
<l>Imports: $21.8 million (f.o.b., 1984)</l>
<l> commodities: building materials, transportation equipment,
rice, clothing, flour</l>
<l> partners: France 57%, Kenya 16%, South Africa 11%, Pakistan
8%</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $NA
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
</p>
<p>Electricity: NA kW capacity; NA million kWh produced, NA kWh per
capita
</p>
<p>Industries: newly created lobster and shrimp industry
</p>
<p>Agriculture: most important sector; provides all export earnings;
crops - vanilla, ylang-ylang, coffee, copra; imports major share of
food needs
</p>
<p>Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $402 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 French franc (F)=100 centimes
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1 - 5.4812 (January 1993),
5.2938 (1992), 5.6421 (1991), 5.4453 (1990), 6.3801 (1989), 5.9569
(1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>