24% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest

Exports: $56 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.) commodities: hides and skins, coffee (in transit) partners: Africa 50%, Middle East 12%, US 6%, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, US, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zaire Group of 5 (France, Germany, Japan, US (1987) External debt: $701 million (December 1990 est.) commodities: machines and manufactures 76.9%, agricultural products partners: EC 40%, Africa 16%, US 1% (1990) Imports: $6.6 billion (1992 est.) National product per capita: $2,600 (1991) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4% (1992) Unemployment rate: 13% (1990) Budget: revenues $280 million; expenditures $308.9 million, including capital expenditures of $4.5 billion (1992) National product real growth rate: NA% Birth rate: 35.41 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Net migration rate: -1.06

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