GDP: purchasing power parity - $47.9 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,900 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
23%
industry:
20%
services:
57% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line: 75%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
0.6%
highest 10%:
46.6% (1989)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.8% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 3.32 million (1997 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 50%, industry 15%, services 35% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 7.5% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$NA
expenditures:
$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Industries: sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - production: 3.085 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
26.42%
hydro:
66.61%
nuclear:
0%
other:
6.97% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 2.914 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 6 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 51 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens
Exports: $2.4 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: coffee, sugar, bananas, fruits and vegetables, meat, apparel, petroleum, electricity
Exports - partners: US 48%, El Salvador 10%, Honduras 6%, Germany 5%, Costa Rica 4% (1997)
Imports: $4.5 billion (c.i.f., 1999)
Imports - commodities: fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity
Imports - partners: US 46%, Mexico 13%, El Salvador 5%, Venezuela 5%, Japan 4% (1997)
Debt - external: $4.4 billion (1998 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $212 million (1995)
Currency: 1 quetzal (Q) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: quetzales (Q) per US$1 - 7.8829 (January 2000), 7.3856 (1999), 6.3947 (1998), 6.0653 (1997), 6.0495 (1996), 5.8103 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year