Economy - overview:
This small sub-Saharan economy is heavily dependent on both commercial and subsistence agriculture, which provides employment for 65% of the labor force. Some basic foodstuffs must still be imported. Cocoa, coffee, and cotton generate about 40% of export earnings, with cotton being the most important cash crop. Togo is the world's fourth-largest producer of phosphate, but production fell an estimated 22% in 2002 due to power shortages and the cost of developing new deposits. The government's decade-long effort, supported by the World Bank and the IMF, to implement economic reform measures, encourage foreign investment, and bring revenues in line with expenditures has moved slowly. Progress depends on following through on privatization, increased openness in government financial operations, progress toward legislative elections, and continued support from foreign donors.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $8 billion (2002 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2002 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,500 (2002 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 42%
industry: 21%
services: 37% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line:
32% (1989 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4% (2002 est.)
Labor force:
1.74 million (1996)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 65%, industry 5%, services 30% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues: $232 million
expenditures: $252 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries:
phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement; handicrafts, textiles, beverages
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
101.6 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 98.7%
hydro: 1.3%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption:
614.5 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
520 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by Ghana (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
10,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, cocoa, cotton, yams, cassava (tapioca), corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock; fish
Exports:
$449 million f.o.b. (2002)
Exports - commodities:
reexports, cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa
Exports - partners:
Benin 13%, Nigeria 9%, Ghana 5%, Colombia 4%, Belgium (2001)
Imports:
$561 million f.o.b. (2002)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products
Imports - partners:
Ghana 35%, France 10%, China 8%, Cote d'Ivoire 8% (2001)
Debt - external:
$1.4 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
ODA $80 million (2000 est.)
Currency:
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
Currency code:
XOF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 696.988 (2002), 733.039 (2001), 711.976 (2000), 615.699 (1999), 589.952 (1998)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
NOTE: The information regarding Togo on this page is re-published from the 2003 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Guinea Geography 2003 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Togo Economy 2003 should be addressed to the CIA.
