The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

      Current account balance:

       $-1.106 billion (2003)

      Exports:

       $2.763 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       coffee, sugar, bananas, fruits and vegetables, cardamom, meat,

       apparel, petroleum, electricity

      Exports - partners:

       US 56.7%, El Salvador 10.8%, Nicaragua 3.6% (2003)

      Imports:

       $5.749 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials,

       grain, fertilizers, electricity

      Imports - partners:

       US 34.1%, Mexico 8.8%, South Korea 7.8%, El Salvador 6.4%, China

       4.6% (2003)

      Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:

       $2.843 billion (2003)

      Debt - external:

       $4.957 billion (2003 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 - 7.9409 (2003), 7.8216 (2002), 7.8586

       (2001), 7.7632 (2000), 7.3856 (1999)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Guatemala

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       846,000 (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       1,577,100 (2002)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of

       Guatemala

       domestic: NA

       international: country code - 502; 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 hosts:

       20,360 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       5 (2000)

      Internet users:

       400,000 (2002)

      Transportation Guatemala

      Railways: total: 886 km narrow gauge: 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2003)

      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 high-water season (2004)

      Pipelines:

       oil 480 km (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

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

       de Castilla

      Merchant marine:

       none

      Airports:

       452 (2003 est.)

      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 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 441

       2,438 to 3,047 m: 1

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 8

       914 to 1,523 m: 109

       under 914 m: 323 (2004 est.)

      Military Guatemala

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force

      Military manpower - military age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 30 months (2004)

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 3,421,682 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 2,233,562 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually:

       males: 156,865 (2004 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $202.6 million (2003)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       0.8% (2003)

      Transnational Issues Guatemala

      Disputes - international:

       Guatemalan squatters continue to settle in Belize border region;

       OAS brokered Differendum in 2002 creating small adjustment to land

       boundary, large Guatemalan maritime corridor in Caribbean, joint

       ecological park for disputed Sapodilla Cays, and substantial US-UK

       financial package, but agreement was not brought to popular

       referendum leaving Guatemala to continue to claim the southern half

       of Belize intact; numbers of Guatemalans enter Mexico seeking work

       or transit to the US

      Refugees and internally displaced persons:

       IDPs: 250,000 (government's scorched-earth offensive in 1980s

       against indigenous people) (2004)

      Illicit drugs:

       major transit country for cocaine and heroin; minor producer of

       illicit opium poppy and cannabis for mostly domestic consumption;

       proximity to Mexico makes Guatemala a major staging area for drugs

       (particularly for cocaine); money laundering is a serious problem;

       corruption is a major problem; remains on Financial Action Task

       Force Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories List for continued

       failure to address deficiencies in money-laundering control regime

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