GDP: purchasing power parity - $14.1 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -3% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,050 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
20%
industry:
25%
services:
55% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line: 50% (1992 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.2%
highest 10%:
42.1% (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 2.3 million (1997 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 29%, industry 21%, services 60% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate: 12% (1999); underemployed 30% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$980 million
expenditures:
$1.15 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products
Industrial production growth rate: 9% (1992 est.)
Electricity - production: 2.904 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
34.44%
hydro:
65.56%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 2.742 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 16 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 57 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp
Exports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: coffee, bananas, shrimp, lobster, meat; zinc, lumber
Exports - partners: US 73%, Japan 4%, Germany 4%, Belgium, Spain (1998)
Imports: $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: US 60%, Guatemala 5%, Netherlands Antilles, Japan, Germany, Mexico, El Salvador (1998)
Debt - external: $4.4 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $557.8 million (1999)
Currency: 1 lempira (L) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: lempiras (L) per US$1 - 14.5744 (January 2000), 14.5039 (1999), 13.8076 (1998), 13.0942 (1997), 12.8694 (1996), 10.3432 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year