Senegal Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $2.3 billion (1984), $360(1984) per capita; real growth —4.2% in 1983

Natural resources · fish, phosphates

Agriculture: main crops—peanuts (primary cash crop); millet, sorghum, manioc, maize, rice, livestock; deficit production of food

Fishing: catch 230,000 metric tons (1984); exports $120 million (1984)

Major industries: fishing, agricultural processing plants, light manufacturing, mining

Electric power: 187,000 kW

Exports: $525 million (f.o.b., 1984); peanuts and peanut products, phosphate rock, fish, petroleum products (reexport)

Imports $805 million (f.o.b., 1984); food, consumer goods, machinery, transport equipment, petroleum

Major trade partners: France, other EC, and franc zone

Senegal

Budget: (1984/85) public revenues, $467 million; current expenditures, $489 million; capital exj^nditures, $75 million

Monetary conversion rate: about 475 Com-munaut6 Financidre Africaine (CFA) francs=VS$l (1985)

Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

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