Appendices

A. Country data

1. Profile
 - Population: 8.646 million (1993)
 - Population growth rate: 2.1 percent/year
 - Religions: Muslims 94 percent; Christians: 4 percent;  -
   Animists: 2 percent
 - Government system:  Unitary, multi-party constitutional
   System with executive, legislative and judicial branches.
 - Languages: Bambara: 33 percent; Peul: 10 percent;       -
   Senoufos: 9 percent; Saracole: 8 percent;  Songhai:7     -
   Percent; Malinke: 6 percent; Touareg: 5 percent; other  -
   22 percent.  French is also widely understood.
 - Work week: 40 hours in formal sector.

2. Domestic economy:

   1 U.S. dollar = cfa 600; figures in millions of USD

                                      1993        1994
 - GDP                               1,180       1,290
 - GDP growth rate                                  5%
 - GDP per capita                      136         146
 - government spending                16.9        48.4
   As percent of GDP
 - unemployment (percent)               28          30
 - foreign exchange reserves
 - average exchange rate               275         590
    ( for USD 1.00)
 - foreign debt                      1,787          -
 - debt service ratio (ratio of       10.8          -
   Principal and interest payments
   On foreign debt/foreign income
 - U.S. Economic/military assistance  0.23        0.13


3. Trade
                                      1993         1994
 - total country exports           221.127      249.010
 - total country imports           389.700      402.067
 - U.S. Exports                      2.130         n.a.
 - U.S. Imports

Import of manufactured goods
   For harmonized system (HS)
   Total (from world)              166.728      188.058


                                 1991       1992       1993
Imports of agricultural goods
   Total (from the world)      15.168      8.155      2.993
    -From the states            2.235        -          -
 U.S. Share of agr. Imports    14.7  -       -          -


Principal U.S. Exports (top 5):

Cigarettes
Used Clothing and Textiles
Agricultural equipment
Plastics
Machinery

B. Principal U.S. Import:

Textiles