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Economy - Honduras: |
Economy overview | Honduras, the second poorest country in Central America and one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income and massive unemployment, is banking on expanded trade under the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and on debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The country has met most of its macroeconomic targets, and began a three-year IMF Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program in February 2004. The economy relies heavily on a narrow range of exports, notably bananas and coffee, making it vulnerable to natural disasters and shifts in commodity prices, but in recent years has experienced a rapid rise in exports of light manufacturers. Growth remains dependent on the economy of the US, its largest trading partner, and on reduction of the high crime rate, as a means of attracting and maintaining investment. |
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Gdp purchasing power parity | $22.54 billion (2006 est.) |
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Gdp official exchange rate | $8.478 billion (2006 est.) |
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Gdp real growth rate | 6% (2006 est.) |
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Gdp per capita ppp | $3,100 (2006 est.) |
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Gdp composition by sector | agriculture: 13.6%
industry: 31.4%
services: 55% (2006 est.) |
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Labor force | 2.589 million (2006 est.) |
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Labor force by occupation | agriculture: 34%
industry: 23%
services: 43% (2003 est.) |
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Unemployment rate | 27.9% (2006 est.) |
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Population below poverty line | 53% (1993 est.) |
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Household income or consumption by percentage share | lowest 10%: 0.6%
highest 10%: 42.7% (1998) |
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Distribution of family income gini index | 55 (1999) |
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Inflation rate consumer prices | 5.7% (2006 est.) |
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Investment gross fixed | 23.7% of GDP (2006 est.) |
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Budget | revenues: $2.002 billion
expenditures: $2.028 billion; including capital expenditures of $106 million (2006 est.) |
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Public debt | 67.1% of GDP (2006 est.) |
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Agriculture products | bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp |
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Industries | sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products |
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Industrial production growth rate | 7.7% (2003 est.) |
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Electricity production | 4.805 billion kWh (2004) |
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Electricity consumption | 4.824 billion kWh (2004) |
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Electricity exports | 0 kWh (2004) |
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Electricity imports | 356 million kWh (2004) |
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Oil production | 0 bbl/day (2004 est.) |
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Oil consumption | 37,000 bbl/day (2004 est.) |
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Oil exports | NA bbl/day |
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Oil imports | NA bbl/day |
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Oil proved reserves | 0 bbl |
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Natural gas production | 0 cu m (2004 est.) |
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Natural gas consumption | 0 cu m (2004 est.) |
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Current account balance | -$160 million (2006 est.) |
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Exports | $1.947 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.) |
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Exports commodities | coffee, shrimp, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber |
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Exports partners | US 70.3%, Guatemala 3.5%, El Salvador 3.4% (2006) |
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Imports | $4.86 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.) |
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Imports commodities | machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs |
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Imports partners | US 51.7%, Guatemala 6.8%, El Salvador 4.4%, Mexico 4.1%, Costa Rica 4% (2006) |
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Reserves of foreign exchange and gold | $2.778 billion (2006 est.) |
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Debt external | $5.587 billion (2006 est.) |
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Economic aid recipient | $557.8 million (1999) |
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Currency code | lempira (HNL) |
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Exchange rates | lempiras per US dollar - 18.895 (2006), 18.92 (2005), 18.206 (2004), 17.345 (2003), 16.433 (2002) |
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This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007