Honduras spent 1999 primarily recovering from
Hurricane Mitch, which killed more than 5,000 people and caused about
$3 billion in damage. Although it is slated to receive about $2.76
billion in international aid, the economy shrank 3% with widening
current account and fiscal deficits in 1999. It nevertheless met most
of its macroeconomic targets, and 2000 should see economic recovery as
reconstruction projects make progress and the agricultural sector
recovers. Honduras may also get relief from its $4.4 billion external
debt under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.

purchasing power parity - $14.1 billion (1999 est.)

-3% (1999 est.)

purchasing power parity - $2,050 (1999 est.)

agriculture: 20%
industry: 25%
services: 55% (1998 est.)

50% (1992 est.)

lowest 10%: 1.2%
highest 10%: 42.1% (1996)

14% (1999 est.)

2.3 million (1997 est.)

agriculture 29%, industry 21%, services
60% (1998 est.)

12% (1999); underemployed 30% (1997 est.)

revenues: $980 million
expenditures: $1.15 billion including capital expenditures of $NA
(1998 est.)

sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products

9% (1992 est.)

2.904 billion kWh (1998)

fossil fuel: 34.44%
hydro: 65.56%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)

2.742 billion kWh (1998)

16 million kWh (1998)

57 million kWh (1998)

bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp

$1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)

coffee, bananas, shrimp, lobster, meat; zinc,
lumber

US 73%, Japan 4%, Germany 4%, Belgium, Spain
(1998)

$2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)

machinery and transport equipment, industrial
raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs

US 60%, Guatemala 5%, Netherlands Antilles, Japan,
Germany, Mexico, El Salvador (1998)

$4.4 billion (1999)

$557.8 million (1999)

1 lempira (L) = 100 centavos

lempiras (L) per US$1 - 14.5744 (January 2000),
14.5039 (1999), 13.8076 (1998), 13.0942 (1997), 12.8694 (1996),
10.3432 (1995)

calendar year