The 1999 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ IBRD, ICAO, ICC,

       ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat,

       Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, ITU, NAM, OAU, OIC, OPCW, PCA, UDEAC, UN,

       UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNITAR, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO,

       WTrO

      Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Jerome MENDOUGA chancery: 2349 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

      Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador John M. YATES embassy: Rue Nachtigal, Yaounde mailing address: B. P. 817, Yaounde; pouch: American Embassy, Department of State, Washington, DC 20521–2520

      Flag description: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), red, and yellow with a yellow five-pointed star centered in the red band; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia

      Economy

      Economy—overview: Because of its oil resources and favorable agricultural conditions, Cameroon has one of the best-endowed primary commodity economies in sub-Saharan Africa. Still, it faces many of the serious problems facing other underdeveloped countries, such as a top-heavy civil service and a generally unfavorable climate for business enterprise. Since 1990, the government has embarked on various IMF and World Bank programs designed to spur business investment, increase efficiency in agriculture, improve trade, and recapitalize the nation's banks. The government, however, has failed to press forward vigorously with these programs. The latest enhanced structural adjustment agreement was signed in October 1997; the parties hope this will prove more successful, yet government mismanagement and corruption remain problems. Inflation has been brought back under control. Progress toward privatization of remaining state industry may support economic growth in 1999–2000.

      GDP: purchasing power parity—$29.6 billion (1998 est.)

      GDP—real growth rate: 5% (1998 est.)

      GDP—per capita: purchasing power parity?$2,000 (1998 est.)

      GDP—composition by sector: agriculture: 42% industry: 22% services: 36% (1997 est.)

      Population below poverty line: 40% (1984 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA%

       highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (1998 est.)

      Labor force: NA

      Unemployment rate: 30% (1998 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $2.23 billion

       expenditures: $2.23 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA

       (FY96/97 est.)

      Industries: petroleum production and refining, food processing,

       light consumer goods, textiles, lumber

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity—production: 2.73 billion kWh (1996)

      Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 2.93% hydro: 97.07% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)

      Electricity—consumption: 2.73 billion kWh (1996)

      Electricity—exports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Electricity—imports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Agriculture—products: coffee, cocoa, cotton, rubber, bananas, oilseed, grains, root starches; livestock; timber

      Exports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

      Exports—commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, lumber,

       cocoa beans, aluminum, coffee, cotton

      Exports—partners: Italy 25%, Spain 20%, France 16%, Netherlands

       7% (1997 est.)

      Imports: $1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

      Imports—commodities: machines and electrical equipment, transport

       equipment, fuel, food

      Imports—partners: France 25%, Nigeria 8%, US 8%, Germany 6% (1997

       est.)

      Debt—external: $8.7 billion (1998 est.)

      Economic aid—recipient: $606.1 million (1995); note?France signed two loan agreements totaling $55 million in September 1997, and the Paris Club agreed in October 1997 to reduce the official debt by 50% and to reschedule it on favorable terms with a consolidation of payments due through 2000

      Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

      Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1—575 (January 1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995), 555.20 (1994)

      Fiscal year: 1 July—30 June

      Communications

      Telephones: 36,737 (1991 est.)

      Telephone system: available only to business and government domestic: cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter international: satellite earth stations—2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 11, FM 8, shortwave 3 (1998)

      Radios: 6 million (1998 est.)

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (1998)

      Televisions: 15,000 (1998)

      Transportation

      Railways: total: 1,104 km narrow gauge: 1,104 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

      Highways: total: 34,300 km paved: 4,288 km unpaved: 30,012 km (1995 est.)

      Waterways: 2,090 km; of decreasing importance

      Ports and harbors: Bonaberi, Douala, Garoua, Kribi, Tiko

      Airports: 52 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways: total: 11 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with unpaved runways: total: 41 1,524 to 2,437 m: 8 914 to 1,523 m: 21 under 914 m: 12 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Army, Navy (includes Naval Infantry), Air

       Force, National Gendarmerie, Presidential Guard

      Military manpower—military age: 18 years of age

      Military manpower—availability:

       males age 15–49: 3,388,643 (1999 est.)

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