_#_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