ce the public-sector deficit
below 2.5% of GDP in 2004. The government's economic policy and
democratic security strategy have engendered a growing sense of
confidence in the economy, particularly within the business sector,
and GDP growth in 2003 was among the highest in Latin America.

GDP:
purchasing power parity - $263.2 billion (2003 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
3.7% (2003 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $6,300 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 13.7%
industry: 32.1%
services: 54.2% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
15.9% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:
55% (2001)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1%
highest 10%: 44% (1999)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
57.1 (1996)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7.1% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
20.34 million (2003 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 30%, industry 24%, services 46% (1990)

Unemployment rate:
14.2% (2003 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $24 billion
expenditures: $25.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
51.9% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa
beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp

Industries:
textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages,
chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds

Industrial production growth rate:
3.5% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
42.99 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
39.81 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
210 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
40 million kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
614,400 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
252,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
1.8 billion bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
5.7 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
5.7 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

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

Current account balance:
$-1.417 billion (2003)

Exports:
$12.96 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
petroleum, coffee, coal, apparel, bananas, cut flowers