The 1999 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Чтение книги онлайн.

СКАЧАТЬ growth rate: 5.5% (1998 est.)

      GDP—per capita: purchasing power parity?$6,700 (1998 est.)

      GDP—composition by sector: agriculture: 15% industry: 24% services: 61% (1997)

      Population below poverty line: NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.3% highest 10%: 34.7% (1996)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12% (1998 est.)

      Labor force: 868,300

      Labor force—by occupation: industry and commerce 23.3%, government and services 55.1%, agriculture 21.6% (1996 est.)

      Unemployment rate: 5.6% (1998 est.); much underemployment

      Budget:

       revenues: $1.1 billion

       expenditures: $1.34 billion, including capital expenditures of $110

       million (1991 est.)

      Industries: food processing, textiles and clothing, construction

       materials, fertilizer, plastic products

      Industrial production growth rate: 10.5% (1992)

      Electricity—production: 4.785 billion kWh (1996)

      Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 14.11% hydro: 75.44% nuclear: 0% other: 10.45% (1996)

      Electricity—consumption: 4.931 billion kWh (1996)

      Electricity—exports: 44 million kWh (1996)

      Electricity—imports: 190 million kWh (1996)

      Agriculture—products: coffee, bananas, sugar, corn, rice, beans, potatoes; beef; timber

      Exports: $3.9 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

      Exports—commodities: manufactured products, coffee, bananas,

       textiles, sugar (1997)

      Exports—partners: US, Benelux, Germany, Italy, Guatemala, El

       Salvador, Netherlands, UK, France (1997)

      Imports: $4.5 billion (c.i.f., 1998)

      Imports—commodities: raw materials, consumer goods, capital

       equipment, petroleum (1997)

      Imports—partners: US, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala,

       Germany (1997)

      Debt—external: $3.2 billion (October 1996 est.)

      Economic aid—recipient: $107.1 million (1995)

      Currency: 1 Costa Rican colon (C) = 100 centimos

      Exchange rates: Costa Rican colones (C) per US$1—272.58 (January 1999), 257.23 (1998), 232.60 (1997), 207.69 (1996), 179.73 (1995), 157.07 (1994)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      Communications

      Telephones: 281,042 (1983 est.)

      Telephone system: very good domestic telephone service

       domestic: NA

       international: connected to Central American Microwave System;

       satellite earth station—1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 71, FM 0, shortwave 13

      Radios: NA

      Television broadcast stations: 6 (in addition, there are 11 repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions: 340,000 (1993 est.)

      Transportation

      Railways: total: 950 km narrow gauge: 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified)

      Highways: total: 35,597 km paved: 6,051 km unpaved: 29,546 km (1997 est.)

      Waterways: about 730 km, seasonally navigable

      Pipelines: petroleum products 176 km

      Ports and harbors: Caldera, Golfito, Moin, Puerto Limon, Puerto

       Quepos, Puntarenas

      Merchant marine: none

      Airports: 156 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways: total: 28 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 18 under 914 m: 7 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with unpaved runways: total: 128 914 to 1,523 m: 29 under 914 m: 99 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Coast Guard, Air Section, Ministry of Public Security Force (Fuerza Publica); note—during 1996, the Ministry of Public Security reorganized and eliminated the Civil Guard, Rural Assistance Guard, and Frontier Guards as separate entities; they are now under the Ministry and operate on a geographic command basis performing ground security, law enforcement, counternarcotics, and national security (border patrol) functions; the constitution prohibits armed forces

      Military manpower—military age: 18 years of age

      Military manpower—availability:

       males age 15–49: 988,887 (1999 est.)

      Military manpower—fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 662,827 (1999 est.)

      Military manpower—reaching military age annually:

       males: 36,751 (1999 est.)

      Military expenditures—dollar figure: $55 million (1995)

      Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 2% (1995)

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes—international: none

      Illicit drugs: transshipment country for cocaine and heroin from South America; illicit production of cannabis on small, scattered plots

      ======================================================================

      @Cote d'Ivoire——————

      Geography

      Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Ghana and Liberia

      Geographic coordinates: 8 00 N, 5 00 W

      Map references: Africa

      Area:

       total: 322,460 sq km

СКАЧАТЬ