GDP: purchasing power parity - $18.1 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 2.2% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,100 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
12%
industry:
22%
services:
66% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line: 48% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.2%
highest 10%:
38.3% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.3% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 2.35 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 30%, industry 15%, services 55% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 7.7% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$1.5 billion
expenditures:
$1.73 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999)
Industries: food processing, beverages, petroleum, chemicals, fertilizer, textiles, furniture, light metals
Industrial production growth rate: 3.5% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 4.1 billion kWh (1999 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
49.32%
hydro:
36.46%
nuclear:
0%
other:
14.22% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 4.17 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports: 30 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports: 65 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products: coffee, sugarcane, corn, rice, beans, oilseed, cotton, sorghum; beef, dairy products; shrimp
Exports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: offshore assembly exports, coffee, sugar, shrimp, textiles, chemicals, electricity
Exports - partners: US 59%, Guatemala 12%, Germany 6%, Costa Rica 4%, Honduras (1998)
Imports: $4.15 billion (c.i.f., 1999)
Imports - commodities: raw materials, consumer goods, capital goods, fuels, foodstuffs, petroleum, electricity
Imports - partners: US 51%, Guatemala 9%, Mexico 6%, Japan 3%, Costa Rica (1999)
Debt - external: $3.3 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: total $252 million; $57 million from US (1999 est.)
Currency: 1 Salvadoran colon (C) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: Salvadoran colones (C) per US$1 (end of period) - 8.755 fixed rate since 1993
Fiscal year: calendar year