20.8%
industry: 18%
services: 61.2% (1995 est.)

Unemployment rate:
8.8% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
37% (1999 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.2%
highest 10%: 35.7% (1997)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
56.4 (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.6% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
17.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $4.157 billion
expenditures: $4.489 billion; including capital expenditures of $471
million (2006 est.)

Public debt:
61.3% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
bananas, rice, corn, coffee, sugarcane, vegetables; livestock;
shrimp

Industries:
construction, brewing, cement and other construction materials,
sugar milling

Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
7.545 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 37%
hydro: 61.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 1.7% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
6.888 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
207 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
78 million kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
79,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day; note - imports oil (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-467 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$8.087 billion f.o.b.; note - includes the Colon Free Zone (2006
est.)

Exports - commodities:
bananas, shrimp, sugar, coffee, clothing

Exports - partners:
US 44.9%, Spain 8.9%, Sweden 5.6%, Netherlands 4.9%, Costa Rica 4%
(2005)

Imports:
$9.365 billion f.o.b. (includes the Colon Free Zone) (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, chemicals

Imports - partners:
US 27.5%, Netherlands Antilles 11.4%, Costa Rica 4.7%, Japan 4.5%
(2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.236 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$9.993 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$197.1 million (1995)

Currency (code):
balboa (PAB); US dollar (USD)

Currency code:
PAB; USD

Exchange rates:
balboas per US dollar - 1 (2006), 1 (2005), 1 (2004), 1 (2003), 1
(2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

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