Congo Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: about $1.8 billion (1984), $1,140 per capita; real growth rate 2.5% per year (1984); 80% of economy is private sector, predominantly French owned and operated

Natural resources: petroleum, wood, potash, lead, zinc, uranium, phosphates, natural gas

Agriculture: cash crops—sugarcane, w ood, coffee, cocoa, palm kernels, peanuts, tobacco; food crops—root crops, rice, corn, bananas, manioc, fish

Fishing: catch 31,926 metric tons (1982)

Major industries: crude oil, cement, sawmills, brewery, cigarettes, sugar mill, soap

Electric power: 175,000 kW capacity (1985); 306 million kWh produced (1985), 170 kWh per capita

Exports $1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1984); oil (90%), lumber, tobacco, veneer, plywood, coffee, cocoa

Imports: $618 million (f.o.b., 1984); machinery, transport equipment, manufactured consumer goods, iron and steel, foodstuffs, chemical products, sugar

Major trade partners: France, other EC countries, US

Budget: (1984) revenues, $721 million, cur rent expenditures, $508 million development expenditures, $241 million

Monetary conversion rate: 475 Commu-naute Financiere Africaine (CFA) fraacs-US$l (1985)

Fiscal year: calendar year

NOTE: The information regarding Congo on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Congo 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Congo 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.