Names: conventional long form: Togolese Republic conventional short form: Togo local long form: Republique togolaise local short form: none former: French Togoland

Capital City: Lome

Population: 5,548,702 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $1,700 (2006 est.)

Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

Languages: French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)

Total Area: total: 56,785 sq km land: 54,385 sq km water: 2,400 sq km slightly smaller than West Virginia

Region: Africa

Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement, handicrafts, textiles, beverages

Agriculture: coffee, cocoa, cotton, yams, cassava (tapioca), corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock; fish

Resources: phosphates, limestone, marble, arable land

Labor Force: 1.302 million (1998)
agriculture: 65% industry: 5% services: 30% (1998 est.)

Exports: $868.4 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
reexports, cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa

Imports: $1.208 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products

Overview: This small, sub-Saharan economy is heavily dependent on both commercial and subsistence agriculture, which provides employment for 65% of the labor force. Some basic foodstuffs must still be imported. Cocoa, coffee, and cotton generate about 40% of export earnings, with cotton being the most important cash crop. Togo is the world's fourth-largest producer of phosphate. The government's decade-long effort, supported by the World Bank and the IMF, to implement economic reform measures, encourage foreign investment, and bring revenues in line with expenditures has moved slowly. Progress depends on follow-through on privatization, increased openness in government financial operations, progress toward legislative elections, and continued support from foreign donors. Togo is working with donors to write a PRGF that could eventually lead to a debt reduction plan.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $282,603 in goods to Togo. This ranks Togo 170^th among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Togo increased from the previous year by $157,695 a change of 126.25%. State exports to Togo have increased over the last 5 years by $247,603 a change of 707.44%. Missouri exports account for .00%. of all 2007 US exports to Togo.