The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

with the need to modernize the state-owned electricity and

       telecommunications sector, and with the problem of bringing down

       inflation.

      GDP:

       purchasing power parity - $32 billion (2002 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       2.8% (2002 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $8,300 (2002 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9% industry: 30% services: 61% (2002 est.)

      Population below poverty line: 20.6% (1999 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.7% highest 10%: 34.6% (2001)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

       45.9 (1997)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       9.1% (2002 est.)

      Labor force:

       1.9 million (1999)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 20%, industry 22%, services 58% (1999 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       6.3% (2002 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $1.91 billion

       expenditures: $2.35 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA

       (2000 est.)

      Industries:

       microprocessors, food processing, textiles and clothing,

       construction materials, fertilizer, plastic products

      Industrial production growth rate:

       2.9% (2002 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       6.839 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 1.5% hydro: 81.9% other: 16.6% (2001) nuclear: 0%

      Electricity - consumption:

       6.109 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       379 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       128 million kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       37,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Agriculture - products: coffee, pineapples, bananas, sugar, corn, rice, beans, potatoes; beef; timber

      Exports: $5.1 billion (2002)

      Exports - commodities: coffee, bananas, sugar; pineapples; textiles, electronic components, medical equipment

      Exports - partners:

       US 31.5%, Netherlands 8.9%, UK 4.5% (2002)

      Imports:

       $6.4 billion (2002)

      Imports - commodities:

       raw materials, consumer goods, capital equipment, petroleum

      Imports - partners:

       US 36.7%, Japan 4.4%, Mexico 4.2% (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $4.8 billion (2002 est.)

      Currency:

       Costa Rican colon (CRC)

      Currency code:

       CRC

      Exchange rates:

       Costa Rican colones per US dollar - 359.82 (2002), 328.87 (2001),

       308.19 (2000), 285.69 (1999), 257.23 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Costa Rica

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       450,000 (1998)

       note: 584,000 installed in 1997, but only about 450,000 were in use

       in 1998

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       143,000 (2000)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: very good domestic telephone service

       domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave,

       fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is

       available

       international: connected to Central American Microwave System;

       satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two

       submarine cables (1999)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)

      Radios:

       980,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       525,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .cr

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       3 (of which only one is legal) (2000)

      Internet users:

       384,000 (2002)

      Transportation Costa Rica

      Railways: total: 950 km narrow gauge: 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified) (2002)

      Highways: total: 35,892 km paved: 7,896 km unpaved: 27,996 km (2000)

      Waterways:

       730 km (seasonally navigable)

      Pipelines:

       refined products 421 km (2003)

      Ports and harbors:

       Caldera, Golfito, Moin, Puerto Limon, Puerto Quepos, Puntarenas

      Merchant marine:

       total: 1 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,716 GRT/ DWT

       ships by type: passenger 1 (2002 est.)

      Airports:

       151 (2002)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 30 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 19 under 914 m: 8 (2002)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 121 914 to 1,523 m: 28 under 914 m: 93 (2002)

      Military Costa Rica

      Military branches:

       no regular indigenous military forces; Air Section, Ministry of

       Public Forces (Fuerza Publica)

      Military manpower - military age:

       18 years of age (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 1,080,254 (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 722,043 (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually:

       males: 41,453 (2003 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: