Unemployment rate: 21.8%; underemployment 50% (1993)
Budget:
revenues: $375 million (1992)
expenditures: $410 million (1992), including capital expenditures of
$115 million (1991 est.)
Exports: $329 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: meat, coffee, cotton, sugar, seafood, gold, bananas
partners: US, Central America, Canada, Germany
Imports: $786 million (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: consumer goods, machinery and equipment, petroleum
products
partners: Central America, US, Venezuela, Japan
External debt: $11 billion (1993)
Industrial production: growth rate -0.8% (1993 est.); accounts for 26% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 460,000 kW production: 1.6 billion kWh consumption per capita: 376 kWh (1993)
Industries: food processing, chemicals, metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear
Agriculture: crops account for about 15% of GDP; export crops - coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton; food crops - rice, corn, cassava, citrus fruit, beans; also produces a variety of animal products - beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products; normally self-sufficient in food
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US