El Salvador Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $4.36 billion (1985 est), $880 per capita

Natural resources: hydroelectric and geothermal power

Agriculture: main crops—coffee, cotton, corn, sugar, lieans, rice, sorghum, wheat

Fishing: catch 10,500 metric tons (1984 prelim.)

Major industries: food processing, textiles, clothing, petroleum products

Electric pou er: 700,000 kW capacity (1985); 1.5 billion kWh produced (1985), 300 kWh per capita

Exports. $7b0.8 million (f.o.b., 1984); coffee, cotton, sugar, shrimp

Imports.· $892 million (c.i.f., 1983); machinery, intermediate goods, petroleum, construction materials fertilizers, foodstuffs

Major trade partners: exports—33% US, 15% FRG, 12% Guatemala; imports—39% US, 18% Guatemala 9% Mexico

Aid: economic—authorized from US, including Ex-lm (FY70-84), $907 million; ODA and OOF commitments by other Western countries (1970-83), $138 million; military—from US(FY70-84\ $412 million

Budget: (1983) government revenues, $502 million; expenditures, $582 million

Monetary conversion rate: 2.5 colones= US$1 (February 1984)

Fiscal year: calendar year

NOTE: The information regarding El Salvador on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of El Salvador 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about El Salvador 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.