low-income West African economy; primarily agrarian economy; has a deep-water port; growing international shipping locale; improving privatization and public budgeting transparency; key phosphate mining industry; extremely high rural poverty
$18.369 billion (2021 est.)
$17.451 billion (2020 est.)
$17.15 billion (2019 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
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5.26% (2021 est.)
1.75% (2020 est.)
5.46% (2019 est.)
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$2,100 (2021 est.)
$2,100 (2020 est.)
$2,100 (2019 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
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$5.232 billion (2018 est.)
1.83% (2020 est.)
0.69% (2019 est.)
0.93% (2018 est.)
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Moody's rating: B3 (2019)
Standard & Poors rating: B (2019)
note: The year refers to the year in which the current credit rating was first obtained.
agriculture: 28.8% (2017 est.)
industry: 21.8% (2017 est.)
services: 49.8% (2017 est.)
household consumption: 84.5% (2017 est.)
government consumption: 11.4% (2017 est.)
investment in fixed capital: 23.4% (2017 est.)
investment in inventories: -1.4% (2017 est.)
exports of goods and services: 43.1% (2017 est.)
imports of goods and services: -61% (2017 est.)
cassava, maize, yams, sorghum, beans, oil palm fruit, rice, vegetables, cotton, groundnuts
phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement, handicrafts, textiles, beverages
5.32% (2020 est.)
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2.965 million (2021 est.)
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agriculture: 65%
industry: 5%
services: 30% (1998 est.)
4% (2021 est.)
3.94% (2020 est.)
3.72% (2019 est.)
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total: 9.7%
male: 12.3%
female: 7.7% (2021 est.)
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55.1% (2015 est.)
42.4 (2018 est.)
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lowest 10%: 3.3%
highest 10%: 27.1% (2006)
revenues: $1.275 billion (2019 est.)
expenditures: $1.158 billion (2019 est.)
-3.8% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
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75.7% of GDP (2017 est.)
81.6% of GDP (2016 est.)
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13.16% (of GDP) (2019 est.)
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calendar year
-$20.738 million (2020 est.)
-$55.444 million (2019 est.)
-$184.852 million (2018 est.)
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$1.722 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$1.665 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$1.703 billion (2018 est.)
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India 16%, Benin 15%, Burkina Faso 6%, France 6%, Morocco 5% (2019)
refined petroleum, crude petroleum, electricity, calcium phosphates, cotton (2019)
$2.389 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$2.261 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$2.329 billion (2018 est.)
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China 18%, South Korea 13%, India 11%, Belgium 10%, Netherlands 8%, United States 5% (2019)
refined petroleum, motorcycles, crude petroleum, rice, broadcasting equipment (2019)
$77.8 million (31 December 2017 est.)
$42.6 million (31 December 2016 est.)
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$1.442 billion (31 December 2017 est.)
$1.22 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
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Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar -
554.531 (2021 est.)
575.586 (2020 est.)
585.911 (2019 est.)
555.446 (2018 est.)
580.657 (2017 est.)
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