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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 the machinery sold as scrap metal. Somalia's service sector 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. Due to armed attacks on and threats to humanitarian aid workers, the World Food Programme partially suspended its operations in southern Somalia in early January 2010 pending improvement in the security situation. Somalia's arrears to the IMF have continued to grow.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$5.896 billion (2010 est.)
$5.75 billion (2009 est.)
$5.607 billion (2008 est.)
note: data are in 2011 US dollars

GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$600 (2010 est.)
$600 (2009 est.)
$600 (2008 est.)
note: data are in 2011 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):
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$2.372 billion (2010 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
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2.6% (2010 est.)
2.6% (2009 est.)
2.6% (2008 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 60.2%
industry: 7.4%
services: 32.5% (2008 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
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NA%

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%
note: businesses print their own money, so inflation rates cannot be easily determined

Central bank discount rate:
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NA%

Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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NA%

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

Stock of narrow money:
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void

Stock of broad money:
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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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34.73 % of population

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

Unemployment rate:
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NA%

Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
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void

Budget:
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revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA

Budget revenues per capita:
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void

Taxes and other revenues:
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void

Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-):
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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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315 million kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - production per capita:
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32 kWh per capita

Electricity - consumption:
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293 million kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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30 kWh per capita

Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2009 est.)

Electricity - imports:
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0 kWh (2009 est.)

Oil - production:
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110.1 bbl/day (2010 est.)

Oil - production per capita:
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12 bbl/day per capita

Oil - consumption:
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5,000 bbl/day (2010 est.)

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

Oil - exports:
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1,109 bbl/day (2009 est.)

Oil - imports:
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3,827 bbl/day (2009 est.)

Oil - proved reserves:
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0 bbl (1 January 2011 est.)

Natural gas - production:
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0 cu m (2009 est.)

Natural gas - production per capita:
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void

Natural gas - consumption:
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0 cu m (2009 est.)

Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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void

Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2009 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
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0 cu m (2009 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
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5.663 billion cu m (1 January 2011 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)

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 51.3%, Yemen 19.8%, Oman 13% (2010)

Imports:
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$798 million (2006)

Imports per capita:
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81 USD per capita

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

Imports - partners:
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Djibouti 31.5%, Kenya 8.2%, Pakistan 7.4%, China 6.5%, Brazil 5.7%, Yemen 5.1%, Oman 5%, UAE 4.9% (2010)

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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303 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

Currency (code):
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Somali shilling (SOS)

Exchange rates:
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Somali shillings (SOS) per US dollar -
NA

Fiscal year:
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NA
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