Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Selected Background Data -- 1-1. Basic indicators -- 1-2. Population -- Technical notes -- 2. National Accounts -- 2-1. Gross domestic product,real -- 2-2. Value added in agriculture -- 2-3. Value added in industry -- 2-4. Value added in services -- 2-5. Gross domestic product, nominal -- 2-6. Total consumption -- 2-7. General government consumption -- 2-8. Gross domestic investment -- 2-9. Gross public investment -- 2-10. Gross private investment -- 2-11. Gross domestic savings -- 2-12. Gross national savings -- 2-13. Resource balance -- 2-14. Exports of goods and nonfactor services, nominal -- 2-15. Imports of goods and nonfactor services, nominal -- 2-16. Exports of goods and nonfactor services, real -- 2-17. Imports of goods and nonfactor services, real -- 2-18. GDP growth -- 2-19. Gross National Income (GNI) per capita -- 2-20. Total consumption per capita -- Technical notes -- 3. Prices and Exchange Rates -- 3-1. GDP deflator (local currency series) -- 3-2. GDP deflator (U.S.dollar series) -- 3-3. Consumer price index -- 3-4. Official exchange rate -- 3-5. SDR exchange rate index -- 3-6. Currency conversion factor -- 3-7. Parallel market exchange rate -- 3-8. Ratio of parallel market to official exchange rates -- 3-9. Real effective exchange rate index -- Technical notes -- 4. Money and Banking -- 4-1. Domestic credit -- 4-2. Credit to the private sector -- 4-3. Credit to the government -- 4-4. Net foreign assets -- 4-5. Growth of money supply -- 4-6. Discount rate -- 4-7. Real discount rate -- 4-8. Commercial bank lending rate -- 4-9. Commercial bank deposit rate -- Technical notes -- 5. External Sector -- Balance of Payments -- 5-1. Merchandise exports, f.o.b. -- 5-2. Merchandise imports, f.o.b.

5-3. Exports of total services (nonfactor and factor) -- 5-4. Imports of total services (nonfactor and factor) -- 5-5. Net private transfers -- 5-6. Net official current transfers -- 5-7. Current account balance, excluding net capital grants -- 5-8. Current account balance, excluding net capital grants/GDP -- 5-9. Net capital grants -- 5-10. Net foreign direct investment -- 5-11. Net long-term borrowing -- 5-12. Other capital flows -- 5-13. Use of reserves -- 5-14. Import coverage ratio of reserves -- Prices -- 5-15. Export unit values -- 5-16. Import unit values -- 5-17. Terms of trade -- Commodity Trade -- 5-18. Forest products exports -- 5-19. Petroleum exports -- 5-20. Copper exports -- 5-21. Iron exports -- 5-22. Phosphates exports -- 5-23. Cocoa exports -- 5-24. Coffee exports -- 5-25. Cotton exports -- 5-26. Groundnut exports -- 5-27. Oil palm products exports -- 5-28. Sisal exports -- 5-29. Tea exports -- 5-30. Sugar exports -- 5-31. Tobacco exports -- 5-32. Meat exports -- 5-33. Manufactured goods exports -- 5-34. Manufactured goods exports,growth -- 5-35. Food imports -- 5-36. Food imports,growth -- 5-37. Nonfood consumer goods imports -- 5-38. Nonfood consumer goods imports, growth -- 5-39. Fuel imports -- 5-40. Fuel imports, growth -- 5-41. Primary intermediate goods imports -- 5-42. Primary intermediate goods imports,growth -- 5-43. Manufactured goods imports -- 5-44. Manufactured goods imports,growth -- 5-45. Capital goods imports -- 5-46. Capital goods imports, growth -- 5-47. Direction of trade matrix,imports, 1993 -- 5-48. Direction of trade matrix,imports, 1998 -- 5-49. Direction of trade matrix, imports, 2003 -- 5-50. Direction of trade matrix,exports, 1993 -- 5-51. Direction of trade matrix,exports, 1998 -- 5-52. Direction of trade matrix, exports, 2003 -- 5-53. Direction of export trade matrix, current U.S. dollars, 1993.

5-54. Direction of export trade matrix, current U.S. dollars, 1998 -- 5-55. Direction of export trade matrix, current U.S.dollars, 2003 -- Technical notes -- 6. External Debt and Related Flows -- 6-1. Gross disbursements: official concessional long-term loans -- 6-2. Gross disbursements:official nonconcessional long-term loans -- 6-3. Gross disbursements:private long-term loans -- 6-4. Disbursements:long-term loans and IMF purchases -- 6-5. Amortization:official concessional long-term loans -- 6-6. Amortization:official nonconcessional long-term loans -- 6-7. Amortization:private long-term loans -- 6-8. Amortization:long-term loans and IMF repurchases -- 6-9. Interest payments:official concessional long-term loans -- 6-10. Interest payments:official nonconcessional long-term loans -- 6-11. Interest payments:private long-term loans -- 6-12. Interest payments:long-term loans and IMF charges -- 6-13. Total external debt service payments:long-term loans and IMF credit -- 6-14. Interest payments: short-term loans -- 6-15. Net flows:long-and short-term loans, including IMF -- 6-16. Net flows:long-term loans, including IMF -- 6-17. Net transfers:long-and short-term loans, including IMF -- 6-18. Net transfers: long-term loans, including IMF -- 6-19. Long-term debt: official concessional -- 6-20. Long-term debt:official nonconcessional -- 6-21. Long-term debt:private -- 6-22. Total external debt -- 6-23. Structure of external debt -- 6-24. Structure of external debt service payments -- 6-25. Average terms of new commitments in 2003 -- 6-26. External debt and debt service ratios, 2003 -- Technical notes -- 7. Government Finance -- 7-1. Government deficit/surplus (including grants) -- 7-2. Government deficit/surplus (excluding grants) -- 7-3. Government primary deficit/surplus ( -/+) -- 7-4. Government expenditure and lending minus repayments.

7-5. Government interest payments -- 7-6. Government revenue (excluding grants) -- 7-7. Grants to government -- 7-8. Foreign financing -- 7-9. Taxes on income and profits -- 7-10. Taxes on international trade and transactions -- 7-11. Indirect taxes -- 7-12. Nontax revenue (excluding grants) -- 7-13. Government expenditure: wages and salaries -- 7-14. Government expenditure:trends in real wages and salaries -- 7-15. Government expenditure:other goods and services -- 7-16. Government expenditure:interest payments -- 7-17. Government expenditure: subsidies and current transfers -- 7-18. Government expenditure: capital and net lending -- 7-19. Government expenditure: trends in real defense spending -- 7-20. Government expenditure: real per capita education spending -- Technical notes -- 8. Agriculture -- 8-1. Nominal producer prices -- 8-2. Food price index -- 8-3. Food production index -- 8-4. Nonfood production index -- 8-5. Food production per capita index -- 8-6. Volume of food output,by major food crop -- 8-7. Value of agricultural exports -- 8-8. Cereal production -- 8-9. Crop production index -- 8-10. Fertilizer use -- 8-11. Fertilizer imports -- 8-12. Area under permanent crops -- 8-13. Agricultural yields by major crop -- 8-14. Incidence of drought -- Technical notes -- 9. Power, Communications, and Transportation -- 9-1. Electric power consumption per capita -- 9-2. Energy production and use -- 9-3. Telephone, radio, and television availability, 1996-03 -- 9-4. Personal computers and Internet use -- 9-5. Vehicle ownership -- 9-6. Road-to-population ratio -- 9-7. Paved primary roads -- 9-8. Rail goods traffic-to-PPP GDP ratio -- 9-9. Rail load-to-locomotive ratio -- 9-10. Air transport -- Technical notes -- 10. Doing Business -- 10-1. Cost of starting & closing a business -- and registering property, 2004.

10-2. Details of contract enforcement, 2004 -- 10-3. Investor protection, 2004 -- Technical notes -- 11. Labor Force and Employment -- 11-1. Number and gender structure of the labor force -- 11-2. Children under 14 working in the labor force -- 11-3. Unpaid family workers as share of active workers -- 11-4. Industrial structure of the labor force -- 11-5. Industrial structure of economically active population -- 11-6. Wages in agriculture -- 11-7. Wages in manufacturing -- 11-8. Wages in mining and quarrying -- 11-9. Wages in construction -- 11-10. Wages in transport, storage, and communications -- 11-11. Wages in community, social, and personal services -- Technical notes -- 12. Aid Flows -- 12-1. Net aid from all donors,nominal -- 12-2. Net aid from DAC donors, nominal -- 12-3. Net aid from non-DAC bilateral donors,nominal -- 12-4. Net aid from multilateral donors, nominal -- 12-5. Net aid from all donors, real -- 12-6. Net aid from DAC donors, real -- 12-7. Net aid from non-DAC bilateral donors, real -- 12-8. Net aid from multilateral donors, real -- 12-9. Net aid from all donors as share of recipient GDP -- 12-10. Net aid from DAC donors as share of recipient GDP -- 12-11. Net aid from multilateral donors as share of recipient GDP -- 12-12. Net aid from all donors as share of recipient GDI -- 12-13. Net aid from DAC donors as share of recipient GDI -- 12-14. Net aid from multilateral donors as share of recipient GDI -- 12-15. Net aid per capita from all donors -- 12-16. Net aid per capita from DAC donors -- 12-17. Net aid per capita from multilateral donors -- Technical notes -- 13. Social Indicators -- 13-1. Age and gender structure of the population -- 13-2. Poverty -- 13-3. Income distribution -- 13-4. Urbanization -- 13-5. Components of population change -- 13-6. Survival prospects -- 13-7. HIV/AIDS estimates and data, end 2003.

13-8. Immunization and ORT use.