Niger
General information
Capital: Niamey
Currency unit: CFA franc
Official language: French
Area: 1,266,700 km²
Population in million: 22,442,900.0
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 414
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 1,063
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 78.7
Annual growth rate of the population: 3.8 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 48.0 %
Life expectancy at birth: 61.6 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 19 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 9,290,940,000.00
Agriculture value added of GDP: 39.2
Industry value added of GDP: 15.5
Services value added of GDP: 6.4
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 602,762.00
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 931,092.00
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Radioactive chemical elements (35.53 %)
Woven fabrics of cotton (0.79 %)
Surveying hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments (0.36 %)
Apparatus for communication (0.20 %)
Articles of jewellery (0.12 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Cigars and cigarettes of tobacco (18.96 %)
Other worn articles (2.23 %)
Live bovine (1.78 %)
Live sheep and goats (1.61 %)
Cane or beet sugar (0.96 %)