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

A free trade agreement between the US and Central

       American countries promises greater access to US and neighboring

       markets.

      GDP:

       purchasing power parity - $53.2 billion (2002 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       2.2% (2002 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $3,900 (2002 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 23% industry: 20% services: 57% (2001 est.)

      Population below poverty line: 75% (2002 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.6% highest 10%: 46% (1998)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

       55.8 (1998)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       8.1% (2002 est.)

      Labor force:

       4.2 million (1999 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 50%, industry 15%, services 35% (1999 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       7.5% (1999 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $2.3 billion

       expenditures: $2.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $750

       million (2002 est.)

      Industries:

       sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum,

       metals, rubber, tourism

      Industrial production growth rate:

       4.1% (1999)

      Electricity - production:

       6.237 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 51.9% hydro: 35.2% other: 12.9% (2001) nuclear: 0%

      Electricity - consumption:

       5.559 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       336 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       95 million kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       21,080 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       61,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - proved reserves:

       263 million bbl (37257)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

       1.543 billion cu m (37257)

      Agriculture - products: sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens

      Exports: $2.7 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Exports - commodities: coffee, sugar, bananas, fruits and vegetables, cardamom, meat, apparel, petroleum, electricity

      Exports - partners:

       US 58.7%, El Salvador 9.3%, Nicaragua 3.1% (2002)

      Imports:

       $5.6 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials,

       grain, fertilizers, electricity

      Imports - partners:

       US 33.2%, Mexico 9.9%, South Korea 8.2%, El Salvador 5.7%, China 4%

       (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $4.9 billion (2002 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $250 million (2000 est.)

      Currency:

       quetzal (GTQ), US dollar (USD), others allowed

      Currency code:

       GTQ; USD

      Exchange rates:

       quetzales per US dollar - 7.82 (2002), 7.86 (2001), 7.76 (2000),

       7.39 (1999), 6.39 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Guatemala

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       665,061 (June 2000)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       663,296 (September 2000)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of

       Guatemala

       domestic: NA

       international: connected to Central American Microwave System;

       satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)

      Radios:

       835,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       1.323 million (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .gt

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       5 (2000)

      Internet users:

       200,000 (2002)

      Transportation Guatemala

      Railways: total: 886 km narrow gauge: 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2002)

      Highways:

       total: 14,118 km

       paved: 4,871 km (including 74 km of expressways)

       unpaved: 9,247 km (1999)

      Waterways:

       990 km

       note: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable

       during highwater season

      Pipelines:

       oil 480 km (2003)

      Ports and harbors:

       Champerico, Puerto Barrios, Puerto Quetzal, San Jose, Santo Tomas

       de Castilla

      Merchant marine:

       none (2002 est.)

      Airports:

       466 (2002)

      Airports - with paved runways:

       total: 11

       2,438 to 3,047 m: 3

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

       914 to 1,523 m: 4

       under 914 m: 2 (2002)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 455

       2,438 to 3,047 m: 1

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 9

       914 to 1,523 m: 115

       under 914 m: 330 (2002)

      Military Guatemala

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy (includes