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Show Me the Money: Djibouti's Economy

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Djibouti's Economy

GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$619 million (2002 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
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3.5% (2002 est.)
GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $1,300 (2002 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 3.5%
industry: 15.8%
services: 80.7% (2001 est.)
Labor force:
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282,000 (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:
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NA
Unemployment rate:
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50% (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
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50% (2001 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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2% (2002 est.)
Budget:
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revenues: $135 million
expenditures: $182 million, including capital expenditures of NA (1999 est.)
Agriculture - products:
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fruits, vegetables; goats, sheep, camels, animal hides
Industries:
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construction, agricultural processing, salt
Industrial production growth rate:
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3% (1996 est.)
Electricity - production:
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180 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - consumption:
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167.4 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
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0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
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11,300 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
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NA
Oil - imports:
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NA
Exports:
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$155 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Exports - commodities:
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reexports, hides and skins, coffee (in transit)
Exports - partners:
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Somalia 63.8%, Yemen 22.6%, Ethiopia 5% (2004)
Imports:
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$665 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Imports - commodities:
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foods, beverages, transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum products
Imports - partners:
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Saudi Arabia 19.7%, India 12.4%, Ethiopia 11.8%, China 8.1%, France 5.6%, US 4.8% (2004)
Debt - external:
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$366 million (2002 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
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$36 million (2001)
Currency (code):
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Djiboutian franc (DJF)

Information on this page was provided by CIA World Factbook