Chad/

Chad’s primarily agricultural economy will continue to be boosted by major foreign direct investment projects in the oil sector that began in 2000. At least 80% of Chad’s population relies on subsistence farming and livestock raising for its livelihood. Chad’s economy has long been handicapped by its landlocked position, high energy costs, and a history of instability. Chad relies on foreign assistance and foreign capital for most public and private sector investment projects. A consortium led by two US companies has been investing $3.7 billion to develop oil reserves - estimated at 1 billion barrels - in southern Chad. Chinese companies are also expanding exploration efforts and are currently building a 300-km pipleline and the country’s first refinery. The nation’s total oil reserves are estimated at 1.5 billion barrels. Oil production came on stream in late 2003. Chad began to export oil in 2004. Cotton, cattle, and gum arabic provide the bulk of Chad’s non-oil export earnings.

$18.56 billion (2010 est.)

$18.2 billion (2009 est.)

$18.49 billion (2008 est.)

$7.592 billion (2010 est.)

2% (2010 est.)

-1.6% (2009 est.)

10.7% (2008 est.)

$1,800 (2010 est.)

$1,800 (2009 est.)

$1,800 (2008 est.)

4.293 million (2007)

NA% est.)

80% (2001 est.)

14.8% of GDP (2010 est.)

4% (2010 est.)

10% (2009 est.)

4.25% (31 December 2009)

4.75% (31 December 2008)

NA% (31 December 2009 est.)

NA% (31 December 2008 est.)

$920.9 million (31 December 2010 est)

$937.8 million (31 December 2009 est)

$1.257 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$1.008 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$943.8 million (31 December 2010 est.)

$566.9 million (31 December 2009 est.)

$NA

cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels

oil, cotton textiles, meatpacking, brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials

3% (2010 est.)

100 million kWh (2007 est.)

93 million kWh (2007 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

115,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

1,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

157,900 bbl/day (2007 est.)

1,571 bbl/day (2007 est.)

1.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.)

-$2.6 billion (2010 est.)

-$2.305 billion (2009 est.)

$3.036 billion (2010 est.)

$2.709 billion (2009 est.)

oil, cattle, cotton, gum arabic

US 90.06%, France 4.81%, China 1.6% (2009)

$2.631 billion (2010 est.)

$2.539 billion (2009 est.)

machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, foodstuffs, textiles

France 17.74%, Cameroon 12.7%, China 11.23%, US 7.59%, Italy 6.54%, Ukraine 5.33%, Netherlands 4.37% (2009)

$868 million (31 December 2010 est.)

$685 million (31 December 2009 est.)

$NA (31 December 2010 est.)

$1.749 billion (31 December 2008 est.)

$NA (31 December 2010)

$4.5 billion (2006 est.)

$NA

Cooperation Financiere en Afrique Centrale francs 506.04 (2010), 472.19 (2009), 447.81 (2008), 480.1 (2007), 522.59 (2006)