Honduras

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Population: 7,483,763 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 39.3% (male 1,500,949/female 1,439,084) 15-64 years: 57.2% (male 2,142,953/female 2,140,432) 65 years and over: 3.5% (male 117,774/female 142,571) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: 2.091% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 27.59 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 5.32 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: -1.36 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.043 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.001 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.826 male(s)/female total population: 1.011 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 25.21 deaths/1,000 live births male: 28.3 deaths/1,000 live births female: 21.95 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 69.35 years male: 67.78 years female: 70.99 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 3.48 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.8% (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 63,000 (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: 4,100 (2003 est.).

Nationality: noun: Honduran(s) adjective: Honduran.

Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1%.

Religions: Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%.

Languages: Spanish, Amerindian dialects.

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 80% male: 79.8% female: 80.2% (2001 census).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $22.54 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 6% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,100 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 13.6% industry: 31.4% services: 55% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 2.589 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 34% industry: 23% services: 43% (2003 est.).

Population below poverty line: 53% (1993 est.).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.6% highest 10%: 42.7% (1998).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.7% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 27.9% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $2.002 billion expenditures: $2.028 billion; including capital expenditures of $106 million (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp.

Industries: sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products.

Industrial production growth rate: 7.7% (2003 est.).

Electricity - production: 4.805 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - consumption: 4.824 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 356 million kWh (2004).

Exports: $1.947 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: coffee, shrimp, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber.

Exports - partners: US 73.3%, Guatemala 2.9%, El Salvador 2.9% (2005).

Imports: $4.86 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs.

Imports - partners: US 52.6%, Guatemala 6.4%, El Salvador 4.1% (2005).

Debt - external: $5.587 billion (2006 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $557.8 million (1999).

Currency (code): lempira (HNL).

Exchange rates: lempiras per US dollar - 18.895 (2006), 18.92 (2005), 18.206 (2004), 17.345 (2003), 16.433 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.