l: 22.38%
hydro: 61.54%
nuclear: 0%
other: 16.08% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 3.547 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 60 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 32 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: coffee, sugarcane, corn, rice, beans,
oilseed, cotton, sorghum; beef, dairy products; shrimp

Exports: $1.96 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.)

Exports--commodities: coffee, sugar; shrimp; textiles

Exports--partners: US, Guatemala, Germany, Costa Rica, Honduras

Imports: $3.5 billion (c.i.f., 1997 est.)

Imports--commodities: raw materials, consumer goods, capital
goods, fuels

Imports--partners: US, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Japan

Debt--external: $2.6 billion (yearend 1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $391.7 million (1995); note?US has
committed $280 million in economic assistance to El Salvador for
1995-97 (excludes military aid)

Currency: 1 Salvadoran colon (C) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Salvadoran colones (C) per US$1 (end of
period)--8.755 (January 1999-1995), 8.750 (1994)
note: as of 1 June 1990, the rate is based on the average of the
buying and selling rates, set on a weekly basis, for official
receipts and payments, imports of petroleum, and coffee exports;
prior to that date, a system of floating was in effect

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 350,000 (1997 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system
international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean);
connected to Central American Microwave System

Radio broadcast stations: AM 18, FM 80, shortwave 2

Radios: 1.5 million (1997 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 5 (1997)

Televisions: 700,000 (1997 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 602 km (single track; note--some sections abandoned, unusable,
or operating at reduced capacity)
narrow gauge: 602 km 0.914-m gauge

Highways:
total: 10,029 km
paved: 1,986 km (including 327 km of expressways)
unpaved: 8,043 km (1997 est.)

Waterways: Rio Lempa partially navigable

Ports and harbors: Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco, La Libertad, La
Union, Puerto El Triunfo

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 86 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 4
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 82
914 to 1,523 m: 17
under 914 m: 65 (1998