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СКАЧАТЬ band; also similar to the flag of Nicaragua, which features a

       triangle encircled by the word REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA on top and

       AMERICA CENTRAL on the bottom, centered in the white band

      Economy Honduras

      Economy - overview:

       Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere

       with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, is banking

       on expanded trade privileges under the Enhanced Caribbean Basin

       Initiative and on debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor

       Countries (HIPC) initiative. While the country has met most of its

       macroeconomic targets, it failed to meet the IMF's goals to

       liberalize its energy and telecommunications sectors. Growth remains

       dependent on the status of the US economy, its major trading

       partner, on commodity prices, particularly coffee, and on reduction

       of the high crime rate.

      GDP:

       purchasing power parity - $16.29 billion (2002 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       2.5% (2002 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $2,500 (2002 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 14% industry: 32% services: 54% (2002 est.)

      Population below poverty line: 53% (1993 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.6% highest 10%: 42.7% (1998)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

       56.3 (1998)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       7.7% (2002 est.)

      Labor force:

       2.3 million (1997 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 34%, industry 21%, services 45% (2001 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       28% (2002 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $607 million

       expenditures: $411.9 million, including capital expenditures of $106

       million (1999 est.)

      Industries:

       sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products

      Industrial production growth rate:

       4% (1999 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       3.778 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 50.2% hydro: 49.8% other: 0% (2001) nuclear: 0%

      Electricity - consumption:

       3.822 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       308 million kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       29,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Agriculture - products:

       bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp

      Exports:

       $1.3 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       coffee, bananas, shrimp, lobster, meat; zinc, lumber (2000)

      Exports - partners:

       US 69.5%, El Salvador 3%, Guatemala 2% (2002)

      Imports:

       $2.7 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials,

       chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs (2000)

      Imports - partners:

       US 55.3%, El Salvador 4.3%, Mexico 4.2% (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $5.4 billion (2002)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $557.8 million (1999)

      Currency:

       lempira (HNL)

      Currency code:

       HNL

      Exchange rates:

       lempiras per US dollar - 16.43 (2002), 15.47 (2001), 14.84 (2000),

       14.21 (1999), 13.39 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Honduras

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       234,000 (1997)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       14,427 (1997)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: inadequate system

       domestic: NA

       international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic

       Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 241, FM 53, СКАЧАТЬ