Mali Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $1.0 billion (1982), $140 per capita, annual real growth rate 4.4% (1982)

Natural resources gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone; bauxite, iron ore, manganese, lithium, and uranium deposits are known or suspected but not exploited

Agriculture: main crops—millet sorghum, rice corn, peanuts; cash crops---peanuts, cotton, livestock

Fishing: catch 33,000 tons (1983 est.)

Major industries: small local consumer goods and processing

Electric power: 92,000 kW capacity (1985);

161 million kWh produced (1985), 20 kWh per capita

Exports. $145.8 million (f.o.b., 1982); livestock, peanuts, dried hsh, cotton, skins

Imports- $232.6 million (f.o.b., 1982); textiles, vehicles, petroleum products, machinery, sugar, cereals

Major trade partners: mostly franc zone and Western Europe, also with USSR, China

Budget: (1982) revenues, $154 million; expenditures and net lending, $169 million

Monetary conversion rate-475 Commun-aute Financiere Africaine (CFA) francs= US$1 (1985)

Fiscal year, calendar year

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