Budget:
revenues: $2.878 billion
expenditures: $3.411 billion, including capital expenditures of $750
million (2004 est.)

Public debt:
32% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep,
pigs, chickens

Industries:
sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum,
metals, rubber, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
4.1% (1999)

Electricity - production:
6.608 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 51.9%
hydro: 35.2%
nuclear: 0%
other: 12.9% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
5.76 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
440 million kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
55 million kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
25,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
61,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
3,104 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
263 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
1.543 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$-1.381 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$2.911 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, fruits and vegetables,
cardamom

Exports - partners:
US 53%, El Salvador 11.4%, Honduras 7.1%, Mexico 4.1% (2004)

Imports:
$7.77 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials,
grain, fertilizers, electricity

Imports - partners:
US 34%, Mexico 8.1%, South Korea 6.8%, China 6.6%, Japan 4.4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$3.084 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$5.969 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$250 million (2000 est.)

Currency (code):
quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed

Currency code:
GTQ; USD

Exchange rates:
quetzales per US dollar - 7.9465 (2004), 7.9409 (2003), 7.8216
(2002), 7.8586 (2001), 7.7632 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Guatemala

Telephones - main lines in use:
846,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1,577,100 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of
Guatemala
domestic: NA
international: country code - 502; connected to Central American
Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean)