Budget:
revenues: $3.3 billion
expenditures: $3.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996 est.)
Industries: petroleum, food processing, textiles, metal work,
paper products, wood products, chemicals, plastics, fishing, lumber
Industrial production growth rate: 6.4% (1993)
Electricity: capacity: 2,230,000 kW production: 6.9 billion kWh consumption per capita: 612 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: bananas, coffee, cocoa, rice, potatoes, manioc, plantains, sugarcane; cattle, sheep, pigs, beef, pork, dairy products; balsa wood; fish, shrimp
Illicit drugs: significant transit country for derivatives of coca
originating in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru; minor illicit producer
of coca; importer of precursor chemicals used in production of
illicit narcotics; important money-laundering hub
Exports: $4 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: petroleum 39%, bananas 17%, shrimp 16%, cocoa 3%,
coffee 6%
partners: US 42%, Latin America 29%, Caribbean, EU countries 17%
Imports: $3.7 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: transport equipment, consumer goods, vehicles,
machinery, chemicals
partners: US 28%, EU 17%, Latin America 31%, Caribbean, Japan
External debt: $12.6 billion (1995 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $153 million (1993)
note: received $12.7 million from the US and $160 million from other
countries in 1995