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      Flag description:

       three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and blue with

       five blue, five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern centered in

       the white band; the stars represent the members of the former

       Federal Republic of Central America - Costa Rica, El Salvador,

       Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; similar to the flag of El

       Salvador, which features a round emblem encircled by the words

       REPUBLICA DE EL SALVADOR EN LA AMERICA CENTRAL centered in the white

       band; also similar to the flag of Nicaragua, which features a

       triangle encircled by the word REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA on top and

       AMERICA CENTRAL on the bottom, centered in the white band

      Economy Honduras

      Economy - overview:

       Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere

       with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income and massive

       unemployment, is banking on expanded trade under the U.S.-Central

       America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and on debt relief under the

       Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The country has

       met most of its macroeconomic targets, and began a three-year IMF

       Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PGRF) program in February

       2004. Growth remains dependent on the economy of the US, its largest

       trading partner, on commodity prices, particularly coffee, and on

       reduction of the high crime rate.

      GDP (purchasing power parity):

       $18.79 billion (2004 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       4.2% (2004 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $2,800 (2004 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12.7% industry: 32.1% services: 55.3% (2004 est.)

      Labor force:

       2.47 million (2004 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 34%, industry 21%, services 45% (2001 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       28.5% (2004 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

       53% (1993 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.6% highest 10%: 42.7% (1998)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

       56.3 (1998)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       7% (2004 est.)

      Investment (gross fixed):

       24.1% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $1.467 billion

       expenditures: $1.722 billion, including capital expenditures of $106

       million (2004 est.)

      Public debt:

       74.1% of GDP (2004 est.)

      Agriculture - products:

       bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp

      Industries:

       sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products

      Industrial production growth rate:

       7.7% (2003 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       3.626 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 50.2% hydro: 49.8% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       3.771 billion kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       16 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       415 million kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       29,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Current account balance:

       $258.3 million (2003 est.)

      Exports:

       $1.457 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       coffee, shrimp, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber

      Exports - partners:

       US 54.4%, El Salvador 8.1%, Germany 5.9%, Guatemala 5.4% (2004)

      Imports:

       $3.332 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials,

       chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs (2000)

      Imports - partners:

       US 37.5%, Guatemala 6.9%, Mexico 5.4%, Costa Rica 4.3%, El Salvador

       4% (2004)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

       $1.464 billion (2004 est.)

      Debt - external:

       $5.365 billion (September 2004 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $557.8 million (1999)

      Currency (code):

       lempira (HNL)

      Currency code:

       HNL

      Exchange rates:

       lempiras per US dollar - 18.206 (2004), 17.345 (2003), 16.433

       (2002), 15.474 (2001), 14.839 (2000)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Honduras

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       322,500 (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       326,500 (2002)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: inadequate system

       domestic: NA

       international: country code - 504; satellite earth stations - 2

       Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave

       System

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 241, FM 53, shortwave 12 (1998)

      Radios:

       2.45 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       570,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .hn

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