Facts about Gabon's economy:
Gross domestic product:
- The gross domestic product (purchasing power parity) in 2006 was USD$10.21 billion.
- The gross domestic product real growth rate in 2006 was 2.8%.
- The gross domestic product -per capita- purchasing power parity in 2006 was USD7,200
- The agriculture sector contributed 5.9% of the total GDP in 2006.
- The service sector contributed 34.4% of the total GDP in 2006.
- The industrial sector contributed 59.7% of the total GDP in 2006.
- Total work force in 2006 comprised 581,000 workers.
- The agriculture sector engaged 60% of the work force.
- The industrial sector employed 15% of the work force.
- The service sector engaged 25% of the work force.
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Unemployment rate in 1997, was 21%.
Public debt in 2006 was 28.6% of the gross domestic product.
Inflation rate was 2.2% in 2006.
The chief agricultural products comprise rubber, cocoa, sugar, coffee, palm oil, okume.
Livestock- Cattle
The industrial sector constitutes the following industries:
Repairing ships, chemicals, food, beverage, gold, extraction of petroleum and refining, textiles, cement, lumbering, plywood, lumbering.Gabon trade:
Gabon export commodities (2001):
Manganese, timber, uranium, crude oil.Export partners (2005):
China, USA, France.Gabon import commodities:
Chemicals, food products, machinery, equipments, materials for construction.Import partners (2005):
Cameroon, USA, France.External debt in 2006 was USD$3.971 billion.
Currency of Gabon is Communaute Financiere Africaine franc. Code is XAF.
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