_#_Unemployment rate: 35% (1990)

_#_Budget: revenues $244 million; expenditures $550 million, including capital expenditures of $73 million (1988)

_#_Exports: $298 million (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities—coffee, cotton, sugar, bananas, seafood, meat, chemicals;

partners—OECD 75%, USSR and Eastern Europe 15%, other 10%

_#_Imports: $710 million (c.i.f., 1989);

commodities—petroleum, food, chemicals, machinery, clothing;

partners—Latin America 30%, US 25%, EC 20%, USSR and Eastern Europe 10%, other 15% (1990 est.)

_#_External debt: $9 billion (December 1990)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 7% (1989); accounts for about 25% of GDP