## Guinea: Selected Economic Indicators, 1998-2002 (_cr0499)

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### Domestic economy (Annual changes in percent)
- Changes in real GDP: 5.0 4.8 4.6 2.1 3.6 4.2
- Changes in consumer prices (period average): 1.9 5.1 4.6 6.8 5.4 3.6

### External economy (In millions of U.S. dollars, unless otherwise indicated)
- Exports, f.o.b.: 629.5 653.0 635.7 666.6 731.3 765.9
- Imports, f.o.b.: 543.2 583.3 559.4 583.3 561.9 642.6
- Current account balance, excluding official transfers: -274.2 -364.7 -288.6 -251.9 -154.3 -269.2
  - (in percent of GDP): -7.2 -10.2 -8.3 -8.2 -5.2 -8.6
- Capital and financial account balance: 388.7 321.4 244.0 70.5 122.6 172.0
- Gross official reserves: 225.3 248.0 207.5 150.3 208.4 262.9
  - (in months of imports of goods and nonfactor services): 2.6 3.1 2.8 2.0 2.5 2.9
- Debt service (including to the Fund)1/: 25.6 19.3 16.7 19.6 19.8 18.2
- Change in real effective exchange rate (in percent)2/: -0.7 -3.5 -13.7 0.8 -2.4 ...

### Financial variables (In percent of GDP, unless otherwise indicated)
- Government revenue: 11.5 11.2 10.8 11.1 11.5 12.6
- Domestic primary balance3/: 3.0 3.0 2.4 2.6 0.7 2.1
- Velocity (GDP/average M2): 10.9 10.5 10.6 10.1 9.3 9.0
- Interest rate4/ (Minimum annual rate on bank savings deposits): 5.5 5.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 ...

*Sources:  Guinean authorities; and IMF Staff estimates and projections.*

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