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- Guinea-Bissau: Economy
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Guinea-Bissau
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: Guinea-Bissau ranks among the poorest countries in the
- world, with a per capita GDP of roughly $200. Agriculture and fishing
- are the main economic activities. Cashew nuts, peanuts, and palm
- kernels are the primary exports. Exploitation of known mineral
- deposits is unlikely at present because of a weak infrastructure and
- the high cost of development. The government's four-year plan
- (1988-91) targeted agricultural development as the top priority.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $210 million
- (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: 2.3% (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $210 (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 55% (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $33.6 million; expenditures $44.8 million,
- including capital expenditures of $.57 million (1991 est.)
- </p>
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- <l>Exports: $20.4 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: cashews, fish, peanuts, palm kernels</l>
- <l> partners: Portugal, Senegal, France, The Gambia,
- Netherlands, Spain</l>
- <l>Imports: $63.5 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: capital equipment, consumer goods,
- semiprocessed goods, foods, petroleum</l>
- <l> partners: Portugal, Netherlands, Senegal, USSR, Germany</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $462 million (December 1990 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate 1.0% (1989 est.); accounts for
- 10% of GDP (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 22,000 kW capacity; 30 million kWh produced, 30 kWh
- per capita (1991)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: agricultural processing, beer, soft drinks
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: accounts for over 50% of GDP, nearly 100% of exports,
- and 90% of employment; rice is the staple food; other crops include
- corn, beans, cassava, cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, and cotton;
- not self-sufficient in food; fishing and forestry potential not fully
- exploited
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $49
- million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $615 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89),
- $41 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $68 million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 Guinea-Bissauan peso (PG)=100 centavos
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Guinea-Bissauan pesos (PG) per US$1 - 1987.2
- (1989), 1363.6 (1988), 851.65 (1987), 238.98 (1986)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: calendar year
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