ve yet to be resolved. A rise
in exports of coffee and other products led growth in 1994.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $6.4 billion (1994
est.)

National product real growth rate: 3.2% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $1,570 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 19.5% (1994 est.)

Unemployment rate: 21.8%; underemployment 50% (1993)

Budget:
revenues: $375 million (1992)
expenditures: $410 million (1992), including capital expenditures of
$115 million (1991 est.)

Exports: $329 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: meat, coffee, cotton, sugar, seafood, gold, bananas
partners: US, Central America, Canada, Germany

Imports: $786 million (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: consumer goods, machinery and equipment, petroleum
products
partners: Central America, US, Venezuela, Japan

External debt: $11 billion (1993)

Industrial production: growth rate -0.8% (1993 est.); accounts for 26%
of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 460,000 kW
production: 1.6 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 376 kWh (1993)

Industries: food processing, chemicals, metal products, textiles,
clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear

Agriculture: crops account for about 15% of GDP; export crops -
coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton; food crops - rice, corn, cassava,
citrus fruit, beans; also produces a variety of animal products -
beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products; normally self-sufficient in
food

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-92), $620 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $1.381 billion

Currency: 1 gold cordoba (C$) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: gold cordobas (C$) per US$1 - 7.08 (December 1994),
6.72 (1994), 5.62 (1993), 5.00 (1992); note - gold cordoba replaced
cordoba as Nicaragua's currency in 1991 (exchange rate of old cordoba
had reached per US$1 - 25,000,000 by March 1992)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 376 km; note - majority of system is nonoperational
standard gauge: 3 km 1.435-m gauge line at Puerto Cabezas; note - does
not connect with mainline
narrow gauge: 373 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 15,286 km
paved: 1,598 km
unpaved: 13,688 km
note: there is a 368.5 km portion of the Pan-American Hi