National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $12.3 billion (1994 est.)
National product real growth rate: 3.6% (1994 est.)
National product per capita: $4,670 (1994 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.8% (1994 est.)
Unemployment rate: 12.9% (1994 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.93 billion
expenditures: $1.93 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1994)
Exports: $520 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: bananas 43%, shrimp 11%, sugar 4%, clothing 5%, coffee 2%
partners: US 45%, EU, Central America and Caribbean
Imports: $2.205 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: capital goods 21%, crude oil 11%, foodstuffs 9%, consumer
goods, chemicals
partners: US 40%, EU, Central America and Caribbean, Japan
External debt: $6.7 billion (yearend 1993 est.)