parity):$7.966 billion (2004 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
1.9% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $5,900 (2004 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 7.4% industry: 46.7% services: 45.9% (2004 est.)
Labor force:
650,000 (2004 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 60%, industry 15%, services 25%
Unemployment rate:
21% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.5% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
21.8% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $2.129 billion
expenditures: $1.64 billion, including capital expenditures of $310
million (2004 est.)
Public debt:
29.3% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical
softwood); fish
Industries:
petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, and gold mining;
chemicals; ship repair; food and beverage; textile; lumbering and
plywood; cement
Industrial production growth rate:
1.6% (2002 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.161 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 34.5% hydro: 65.5% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.08 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
264,900 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
13,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
2.022 billion bbl (2004 est.)
Natural gas - production:
80 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
80 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
66.47 billion cu m (2004)
Current account balance:
$196.8 million (2004 est.)
Exports:
$3.71 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil 77%, timber, manganese, uranium (2001)
Exports - partners:
US 53.3%, China 8.5%, France 7.4% (2004)
Imports:
$1.225 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, construction
materials
Imports - partners:
France 43.8%, US 6.3%, UK 5.9%, Netherlands 4% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$268.6 million (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$3.804 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$331 million (1995)
Currency (code):
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible
authority is the Bank of the Central African States
Currency code:
XAF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 528.29
(2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002), 733.04 (2001), 711.98 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Gabon
Telephones - main lines in use:
38,400 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
300,000 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: adequate service by African standards and
