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- <text id=93CT1382>
- <title>
- Togo--Economy
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Togo
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: The economy is heavily dependent on subsistence
- agriculture, which accounts for about 33% of GDP and provides
- employment for 78% of the labor force. Primary agricultural
- exports are cocoa, coffee, and cotton, which together account
- for about 30% of total export earnings. Togo is self-sufficient
- in basic foodstuffs when harvests are normal. In the industrial
- sector phosphate mining is by far the most important activity,
- with phosphate exports accounting for about 40% of total foreign
- exchange earnings. Togo serves as a regional commercial and
- trade center. The government, over the past decade, with IMF and
- World Bank support, has been implementing a number of economic
- reform measures to encourage foreign investment and bring
- revenues in line with expenditures. Political unrest, including
- private and public sector strikes throughout 1991 and 1992, has
- jeopardized the reform program and has disrupted vital economic
- activity.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $1.5
- billion (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: 0% (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $400 (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.5% (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: 2% (1987)
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $284.8 million; expenditures $407 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Exports: $512 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: phosphates, cotton, cocoa, coffee</l>
- <l> partners: EC 40%, Africa 16%, US 1% (1990)</l>
- <l>Imports: $583 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, food,
- chemical products</l>
- <l> partners: EC 57%, Africa 17%, US 5%, Japan 4% (1990)</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $1.3 billion (1991)
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate 9.0% (1991 est.); accounts
- for 20% of GDP
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 179,000 kW capacity; 209 million kWh produced, 60
- kWh per capita (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement,
- handicrafts, textiles, beverages
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: accounts for 33% of GDP; cash crops - coffee,
- cocoa, cotton; food crops - yams, cassava, corn, beans, rice,
- millet, sorghum; livestock production not significant; annual
- fish catch, 10,000-14,000 tons
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-90), $142
- million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-90), $2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89),
- $35 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $51 million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF)=100 centimes
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
- per US$1 - 274.06 (January 1993), 264.69 (1992), 282.11 (1991),
- 272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85 (1988)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: calendar year
- </p></body></article></text>
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