Ivory Coast Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $6.1 billion (1984), $780 per capita (1983); real average annual growth rate, 4.0% (1985 est.)

Natural resources: petroleum, diamonds, manganese

Agriculture: commercial—coffee, cocoa, wood, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, food crops—corn, millet, yams, rice; other commodities—cotton, rubber, tobacco, fish

Fishing: catch 92,469 metric tons (1982); exports $44.7 million (1979), imports $71.9 million (1979)

Major industries: food and lumber processing, oil refinery, automobile assembly plant, textiles, soap, flour mill, matches, three small shipyards, fertilizer plant, and battery factory

Electric power: 987,600 kW capacity (1985); 2.162 billion kWh produced (1985), 214 kWh per capita

Exports: $3 5 billion (1985 est.); cocoa (30%), coffee (20%), tropical woods (11%), cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton

Imports-$1 6 billion (1985 est.); manufactured good' and semifinished products (50%), consumer goods (40%), raw materials and fuels (10%)

Aid: economic commitments—Western (non-US)ODA and OOF (1970-83), $3 0 billion; US authorizations, including Ex-Im (FY70-81), $340 million

Major trade partners: (1984) exports— France, Nigeria, FRG, Netherlands, US

Budget. (1984 est.), revenues, $1 4 billion; current expenditures, $1 4 billion

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

Fiscal year: calendar year

Gommunications

Railroads: 657 km of the 1,175 km Abidjan to Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, line, all single track 1 (XX)-meter gauge; only diesel locomotives in use

Highways. 46,600 km total; 3,600 km bituminous and bituminous-treated surface; 32,000 km gravel, crushed stone, laterite, and improved earth; 11000 km unimproved

Inland waterways: 740 km nas igable rivers and numerous coastal lagoons

Ports: 2 major (Abidjan, San-Pedro), 2 minor

Civil air: 25 major transport aircraft, including multinationally owned Air Afrique fleet

Airfields: 49 total. 45 usable; 3 with permanent-surface runways; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 13 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications-system above African average; consists of open-wire lines and radio-relay links; 87,700 telephones (1.3 per 100 popl.); 3 AM, 17 FM, 11 TV stations; 2 Atlantic Ocean satellite stations; 2 coaxial submarine cables

NOTE: The information regarding Ivory Coast 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 Ivory Coast 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ivory Coast 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.