Budget:
revenues: $846 million
expenditures: $890 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1992 est.)
Industries: food processing, beverages, petroleum, tobacco,
chemicals, textiles, furniture
Industrial production growth rate: 7.6% (1993)
Electricity: capacity: 750,000 kW production: 2.4 billion kWh consumption per capita: 408 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: coffee, sugarcane, corn, rice, beans, oilseed; beef,
dairy products; shrimp
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine; marijuana produced
for local consumption
Exports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: coffee, sugarcane, shrimp
partners: US, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Germany
Imports: $3.3 billion (c.i.f., 1995 est.)
commodities: raw materials, consumer goods, capital goods
partners: US, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, Germany
External debt: $2.6 billion (December 1992)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $777 million (1993) note: US has committed $250 million in aid to El Salvador for 1992-96