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- Economy
-
- Overview: Subsistence agriculture provides the main livelihood
- for 80-90% of the population, but accounts for only 10-20%
- of GDP. Oil production is the most lucrative sector of the
- economy, contributing about 50% to GDP. In recent years,
- however, the impact of fighting an internal war has severely
- affected the economy and food has to be imported.
-
- GDP: $5.0 billion, per capita $600; real growth rate 9.2%
- (1988 est.).
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%.
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- Unemployment rate: NA%.
-
- Budget: revenues NA; expenditures $2.7 billion, including
- capital expenditures of NA (1986 est.).
-
- Exports: $2.9 billion (f.o.b., 1989 est.); commodities--oil,
- coffee, diamonds, sisal, fish and fish products, timber,
- cotton; partners--US, USSR, Cuba, Portugal, Brazil.
-
- Imports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1989 est.); commodities--capital
- equipment (machinery and electrical equipment), food, vehicles
- and spare parts, textiles and clothing, medicines; substantial
- military deliveries; partners--US, USSR, Cuba, Portugal, Brazil.
-
- External debt: $3.0 billion (1989).
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
-
- Electricity: 506,000 kW capacity; 770 million kWh produced,
- 90 kWh per capita (1989).
-
- Industries: petroleum, mining (phosphate rock, diamonds),
- fish processing, brewing, tobacco, sugar, textiles, cement,
- food processing, building construction.
-
- Agriculture: cash crops--coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, sugar,
- manioc, tobacco; food crops--cassava, corn, vegetables,
- plantains, bananas, and other local foodstuffs; disruptions
- caused by civil war and marketing deficiencies require food
- imports.
-
- Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $263 million;
- Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
- (1970-87), $903 million; Communist countries (1970-88),
- $1.3 billion.
-
- Currency: kwanza (plural--kwanza); 1 kwanza (Kz) = 100 lwei.
-
- Exchange rates: kwanza (Kz) per US$1--29.62 (fixed rate
- since 1976).
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- Fiscal year: calendar year.
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