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EconomySomalia
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Economy - overview:
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Despite the lack of effective national governance, Somalia has maintained a healthy informal economy, largely based on livestock, remittance/money transfer companies, and telecommunications. Agriculture is the most important sector, with livestock normally accounting for about 40% of GDP and more than 50% of export earnings. Nomads and semi-pastoralists, who are dependent upon livestock for their livelihood, make up a large portion of the population. Livestock, hides, fish, charcoal, and bananas are Somalia's principal exports, while sugar, sorghum, corn, qat, and machined goods are the principal imports. Somalia's small industrial sector, based on the processing of agricultural products, has largely been looted and sold as scrap metal. Somalia's service sector also has grown. Telecommunication firms provide wireless services in most major cities and offer the lowest international call rates on the continent. In the absence of a formal banking sector, money transfer/remittance services have sprouted throughout the country, handling up to $1.6 billion in remittances annually. Mogadishu's main market offers a variety of goods from food to the newest electronic gadgets. Hotels continue to operate and are supported with private-security militias. Somalia's arrears to the IMF continued to grow in 2008.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$5.733 billion (2009 est.)
$5.59 billion (2008 est.)
$5.451 billion (2007 est.)
note: data are in 2009 US dollars

GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$600 (2009 est.)
$600 (2008 est.)
$600 (2007 est.)
note: data are in 2009 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):
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$2.731 billion (2009 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
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2.6% (2009 est.)
2.6% (2008 est.)
2.6% (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 65%
industry: 10%
services: 25% (2005 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
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void

Population below poverty line:
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NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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void

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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NA% est.)
note: businesses print their own money, so inflation rates cannot be easily determined

Central bank discount rate:
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NA% (31 December 2008)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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NA% (31 December 2008)

Stock of money:
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void

Stock of money - per capita:
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void

Stock of quasi money:
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void

Stock of quasi money - per capita:
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void

Stock of domestic credit:
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void

Stock of domestic credit - per capita:
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void

Labor force:
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3.447 million (few skilled laborers) (2007)

Labor force participation rate:
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35.06 % of population

Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 71%
industry and services: 29% (1975)

Unemployment rate:
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NA% est.)

Budget:
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revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA

Budget revenues per capita:
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void

Public debt:
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void

Industries:
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a few light industries, including sugar refining, textiles, wireless communication

Industrial production growth rate:
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NA%

Electricity - production:
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280 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production per capita:
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29 kWh per capita

Electricity - consumption:
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260.4 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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27 kWh per capita

Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - imports:
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0 kWh (2008 est.)

Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - production per capita:
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void

Oil - consumption:
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5,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - consumption - per capita:
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0.19 bbl/year per capita

Oil - exports:
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1,475 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - imports:
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6,387 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - proved reserves:
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural gas - production:
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0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - production per capita:
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void

Natural gas - consumption:
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0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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void

Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
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0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
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5.663 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Agriculture - products:
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bananas, sorghum, corn, coconuts, rice, sugarcane, mangoes, sesame seeds, beans; cattle, sheep, goats; fish

Current account balance:
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void

Current account balance - per capita:
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void

Exports:
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$300 million (2006 est.)

Exports per capita:
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31 USD per capita

Exports - commodities:
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livestock, bananas, hides, fish, charcoal, scrap metal

Exports - partners:
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UAE 56.2%, Yemen 21%, Saudi Arabia 3.6% (2008)

Imports:
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$798 million (2006 est.)

Imports per capita:
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82 USD per capita

Imports - commodities:
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manufactures, petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction materials, qat

Imports - partners:
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Djibouti 29.2%, India 11.9%, Kenya 7.6%, US 6%, Oman 5.6%, UAE 5.5%, Yemen 4.7% (2008)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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void

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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void

Debt - external:
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$3 billion (2001 est.)

Debt - external - per capita:
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306 USD per capita

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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void

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home - per capita:
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void

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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void

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad - per capita:
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void

Market value of publicly traded shares:
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void

Market value of publicly traded shares - per capita:
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void

Economic aid - donor:
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void

Economic aid - recipient:
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$236.4 million

Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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25 USD per capita

Currency (code):
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Somali shilling (SOS)

Exchange rates:
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Somali shillings (SOS) per US dollar - NA (2007-08), 1,438.3 (2006) official rate; the unofficial black market rate was about 23,000 shillings per dollar as of February 2007
note: the Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared independent country not recognized by any foreign government, issues its own currency, the Somaliland shilling

Fiscal year:
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NA
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