Budget:
revenues: $1.86 billion
expenditures: $1.86 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995)
Industries: construction, petroleum refining, brewing, cement and
other construction materials, sugar milling
Industrial production growth rate: 0.4% (1995 est.)
Electricity: capacity: 960,000 kW production: 2.8 billion kWh consumption per capita: 1,047 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: bananas, rice, corn, coffee, sugarcane, vegetables; livestock; fishing (shrimp)
Illicit drugs: major cocaine transshipment point and major drug money laundering center; minor producer of coca leaf; active eradication program
Exports: $548 million (f.o.b., 1995)
commodities: bananas 43%, shrimp 11%, sugar 4%, clothing 5%, coffee
2%
partners: US 39%, EU, Central America and Caribbean
Imports: $2.45 billion (c.i.f., 1995)
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.)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $58 million (1993)