_#_Industries: sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 26% of GDP; most important sector of economy and contributes two-thirds to export earnings; principal crops—sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; livestock—cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens; food importer
_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade; the government has engaged in aerial eradication of opium poppy; transit country for cocaine shipments
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-90), $1.1 billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $7.8 billion
_#_Currency: quetzal (plural—quetzales); 1 quetzal (Q) = 100 centavos
_#_Exchange rates: free market quetzales (Q) per US$1—5.4 (April 1991), 4.4858 (1990), 2.8161 (1989), 2.6196 (1988), 2.500 (1987), 1.875 (1986), 1.000 (1985); note—black-market rate 2.800 (May 1989)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*Communications #_Railroads: 870 km 0.914-meter gauge, single track; 780 km government owned, 90 km privately owned
_#_Highways: 26,429 km total; 2,868 km paved, 11,421 km gravel, and 12,140 unimproved
_#_Inland waterways: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable during high-water season