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- Economy
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- Overview: The economy is heavily dependent on subsistence
- agriculture, which accounts for about 35% 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, that is, actively encouraging foreign
- investment and attempting to bring revenues in line with
- expenditures. Political unrest throughout 1991, however, has
- jeopardized the reform program and has disrupted vital economic
- activity.
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- GDP: exchange rate conversion - $1.5 billion, per capita $400;
- real growth rate 2% (1990 est.)
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.0% (1990)
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- Unemployment rate: 2.0% (1987)
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- Budget: revenues $330 million; expenditures $363 million,
- including capital expenditures of $101 million (1990 est.)
-
- Exports: $396 million (f.o.b., 1990)
-
- commodities: phosphates, cocoa, coffee, cotton, manufactures,
- palm kernels
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- partners: EC 70%, Africa 9%, US 2%, other 19% (1985)
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- Imports: $502 million (f.o.b., 1990)
-
- commodities: food, fuels, durable consumer goods, other
- intermediate goods, capital goods
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- partners: EC 61%, US 6%, Africa 4%, Japan 4%, other 25% (1989)
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- External debt: $1.3 billion (1990 est.)
-
- Industrial production: growth rate 4.9% (1987 est.); 6% of GDP
-
- Electricity: 179,000 kW capacity; 209 million kWh produced, 60
- kWh per capita (1990)
-
- Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement,
- handicrafts, textiles, beverages
-
- Agriculture: 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
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- Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $132
- million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $1.9 billion; OPEC bilateral aid
- (1979-89), $35 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $51
- million
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- Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (plural -
- francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
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- Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
- per US$1 - 281.99 (March 1992), 282.11 (1991), 272.26 (1990),
- 319.01 (1989), 297.85 (1988), 300.54 (1987)
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- Fiscal year: calendar year
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