home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Economy
-
- Overview: The Ivory Coast is among the world's largest producers
- and exporters of coffee, cocoa beans, and palm-kernel oil.
- Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations
- in international prices for coffee and cocoa and to weather
- conditions. Despite attempts by the government to diversify,
- the economy is still largely dependent on agriculture and
- related industries. The agricultural sector accounts for
- over one-third of GDP and about 80% of export earnings and
- employs about 85% of the labor force. A collapse of world
- cocoa and coffee prices in 1986 threw the economy into a
- recession, from which the country had not recovered by 1989.
-
- GDP: $10.0 billion, per capita $900; real growth rate -6.4% (1988).
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.5% (1988).
-
- Unemployment rate: 14% (1985).
-
- Budget: revenues $1.6 billion (1986); expenditures $2.3 billion,
- including capital expenditures of $504 million (1988 est.).
-
- Exports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--cocoa
- 30%, coffee 20%, tropical woods 11%, cotton, bananas, pineapples,
- palm oil, cotton; partners--France, FRG, Netherlands, US,
- Belgium, Spain (1985).
-
- Imports: $1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--manufactured
- goods and semifinished products 50%, consumer goods 40%,
- raw materials and fuels 10%; partners--France, other EC,
- Nigeria, US, Japan (1985).
-
- External debt: $14.7 billion (1989 est.).
-
- Industrial production: growth rate 0% (1987).
-
- Electricity: 1,081,000 kW capacity; 2,440 million kWh produced,
- 210 kWh per capita (1989).
-
- Industries: foodstuffs, wood processing, oil refinery, automobile
- assembly, textiles, fertilizer, beverage.
-
- Agriculture: most important sector, contributing one-third
- to GDP and 80% to exports; cash crops include coffee, cocoa
- beans, timber, bananas, palm kernels, rubber; food crops--corn,
- rice, manioc, sweet potatoes; not selfsufficient in bread
- grain and dairy products.
-
- Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis on a small scale
- for the international drug trade.
-
- Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $344 million;
- Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
- (1970-87), $4.6 billion.
-
- Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (plural--francs);
- 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes.
-
- Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
- per US$1--287.99 (January 1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85 (1988),
- 300.54 (1987), 346.30 (1986), 449.26 (1985).
-
- Fiscal year: calendar year.
-