ion
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,