Unemployment rate: 6.7% (1993)
Budget:
revenues: $846 million
expenditures: $890 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1992 est.)
Exports: $823 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: coffee, sugarcane, shrimp
partners: US, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Germany
Imports: $2.1 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.) commodities: raw materials, consumer goods, capital goods partners: US, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, Germany
External debt: $2.6 billion (December 1992)
Industrial production: growth rate 7.6% (1993)
Electricity: capacity: 750,000 kW production: 2.4 billion kWh consumption per capita: 408 kWh (1993)
Industries: food processing, beverages, petroleum, nonmetallic products, tobacco, chemicals, textiles, furniture
Agriculture: accounts for 24% of GDP and 40% of labor force (including fishing and forestry); coffee most important commercial crop; other products - sugarcane, corn, rice, beans, oilseeds, beef, dairy products, shrimp; not self-sufficient in food
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine; marijuana produced for
local consumption