Mali Trip

Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. The economy is on agriculture, 80 percent (2001) of the population live from agriculture. Small manufacturing companies exist mainly in the fields of cotton and food processing. In mineral resources are salt, phosphates, gold and uranium dismantled. The gross domestic product (GDP) amounts to 3 364 million U.S. dollars (2001; services 36.1 percent, industry 29.7 percent, agriculture 34.2 percentage), resulting in a GDP per capita of 300 U.S. dollars. 12 percent of employed persons working in the service sector, 2 percent are in industry, 86 percent employed in agriculture.

The most important fruit crops are millet, rice, sorghum, maize and sugar cane. The main cropping area is the inland delta of the Niger between Ségou and Timbuktu. By dams on the Niger arable land could be extended. The harvests as well as the livestock are repeatedly by drought disasters in danger.

Country’s currency is the CFA franc.

Among the major export products include cotton, cattle and fish. Particularly imported oil and food products, motor vehicles, machinery and chemicals. The main trading partners are France, Ivory Coast, of Senegal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Britain and Germany.