| Economy of Chad |
| Currency |
CFA Franc (XAF) |
| Fiscal year |
Calendar year |
| Trade organisations |
AU, WTO |
| Statistics [1] |
| GDP ranking |
132st (2005) [2] |
| GDP |
$15.66 billion (2004) |
| GDP growth |
38% (2004) |
| GDP per capita |
$1,600 (2004) |
| GDP by sector |
agriculture: {22.6%}, industry: {35.6%}, services: {41.7%) (2004) |
| Inflation |
8% (2004) |
| Pop below poverty line |
80% (2001) |
| Labour force |
N/A (2004) |
| Labour force by occupation |
agriculture more than (80%) (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing) |
| Unemployment |
N/A (2004) |
| Main industries |
oil, cotton textiles, meatpacking, beer brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials |
| Trading Partners [3] |
| Exports |
$365 million (2003) |
| Export - Commodities |
cotton, cattle, gum {arabic} |
| Main partners |
U.S. 74.2%, the People's Republic of China 14.8%, Portugal 5.2% {2004) |
| Imports |
$500.7 million( 2004) |
| Imports - Commodities |
machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles |
| Main Partners |
France 22.9%, Cameroon 13.7%, U.S. 11.8%, Portugal 10.9%, Germany 7.7%, Belgium 4.8% (2004) |
| Public finances [4] |
| Public debt |
N/A |
| Revenues |
$1.131 billion (2004) |
| Expenses |
$957.7 million (2004) |
| Economic aid |
$238.3 million (recipient) note - $125 million committed by Taiwan (1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank; ODA $150 million 2001) |
