Population below poverty line:
37% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.2% highest 10%: 35.7% (1997)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
56.4 (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.9% (2005 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
16.5% of GDP (2005 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $3.426 billion
expenditures: $3.959 billion; including capital expenditures of $471
million (2005 est.)
Public debt:
64.9% of GDP (2005 est.)
Agriculture - products:
bananas, rice, corn, coffee, sugarcane, vegetables; livestock;
shrimp
Industries:
construction, brewing, cement and other construction materials,
sugar milling
Industrial production growth rate:
1.7% (2005 est.)