for 25% of GDP, employs
about 40% of the labor force, and contributes about 66% to total exports.
Coffee is the major commercial crop, accounting for 45% of export
earnings. The manufacturing sector, based largely on food and beverage
processing, accounts for 18% of GDP and 15% of employment. Economic
losses because of guerrilla sabotage total more than $2.0 billion
since 1979. The costs of maintaining a large military seriously
constrain the government's efforts to provide essential social services.
Nevertheless, growth in national output last year exceeded growth in
population for the first time since 1987.

_#_GDP: $5.4 billion, per capita $1,030; real growth rate 2.8%
(1990 est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 20% (1990)

_#_Unemployment rate: 10% (1989)

_#_Budget: revenues $751 million; expenditures $790 million, including
capital expenditures of $NA (1990 est.)

_#_Exports: $571 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities--coffee 45%, sugar, cotton, shrimp;

partners--US 49%, FRG 24%, Guatemala 7%, Costa Rica 4%, Japan 4%

_#_Imports: $1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1990 est.);

commodities--petroleum products, consumer goods, foodstuffs,
machinery, construction materials, fertilizer;

partners--US 40%, Guatemala 12%, Venezuela 7%, Mexico 7%, FRG 5%,
Japan 4%

_#_External debt: $2.1 billion (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 2.4% (1990); accounts for
22% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 682,000 kW capacity; 1,849 million kWh produced,
350 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: food processing, textiles, clothing, beverages,
petroleum, tobacco products, chemicals, furniture

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 25% of GDP and 40% of labor force
(including fishing and forestry); coffee most important commercial crop;
other products--sugarcane, corn, rice, beans, oilseeds, beef, dairy
products, shrimp; not self-sufficient in food

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-90), $2.95
billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $455 million

_#_Currency: Salvadoran colon (plural--colones); 1 Salvadoran
colon (C) = 100 centavos

_#_Exchange rates: Salvadoran colones (C) per US$1--8.0 (April
1991, floating rate since mid-1990); 5.0000 (fixed rate 1986 to mid-1990)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 602 km 0.914-meter gauge, single track

_#_Highways: 10,000 km total; 1,500 km