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with the need to modernize the state-owned electricity and
telecommunications sector, and with the problem of bringing down
inflation.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $32 billion (2002 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.8% (2002 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $8,300 (2002 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9% industry: 30% services: 61% (2002 est.)
Population below poverty line: 20.6% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.7% highest 10%: 34.6% (2001)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
45.9 (1997)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9.1% (2002 est.)
Labor force:
1.9 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 20%, industry 22%, services 58% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
6.3% (2002 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.91 billion
expenditures: $2.35 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(2000 est.)
Industries:
microprocessors, food processing, textiles and clothing,
construction materials, fertilizer, plastic products
Industrial production growth rate:
2.9% (2002 est.)
Electricity - production:
6.839 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 1.5% hydro: 81.9% other: 16.6% (2001) nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption:
6.109 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
379 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
128 million kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
37,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Agriculture - products: coffee, pineapples, bananas, sugar, corn, rice, beans, potatoes; beef; timber
Exports: $5.1 billion (2002)
Exports - commodities: coffee, bananas, sugar; pineapples; textiles, electronic components, medical equipment
Exports - partners:
US 31.5%, Netherlands 8.9%, UK 4.5% (2002)
Imports:
$6.4 billion (2002)
Imports - commodities:
raw materials, consumer goods, capital equipment, petroleum
Imports - partners:
US 36.7%, Japan 4.4%, Mexico 4.2% (2002)
Debt - external:
$4.8 billion (2002 est.)
Currency:
Costa Rican colon (CRC)
Currency code:
CRC
Exchange rates:
Costa Rican colones per US dollar - 359.82 (2002), 328.87 (2001),
308.19 (2000), 285.69 (1999), 257.23 (1998)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Costa Rica
Telephones - main lines in use:
450,000 (1998)
note: 584,000 installed in 1997, but only about 450,000 were in use
in 1998
Telephones - mobile cellular:
143,000 (2000)
Telephone system:
general assessment: very good domestic telephone service
domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave,
fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is
available
international: connected to Central American Microwave System;
satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two
submarine cables (1999)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)
Radios:
980,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
525,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.cr
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
3 (of which only one is legal) (2000)
Internet users:
384,000 (2002)
Transportation Costa Rica
Railways: total: 950 km narrow gauge: 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified) (2002)
Highways: total: 35,892 km paved: 7,896 km unpaved: 27,996 km (2000)
Waterways:
730 km (seasonally navigable)
Pipelines:
refined products 421 km (2003)
Ports and harbors:
Caldera, Golfito, Moin, Puerto Limon, Puerto Quepos, Puntarenas
Merchant marine:
total: 1 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,716 GRT/ DWT
ships by type: passenger 1 (2002 est.)
Airports:
151 (2002)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 30 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 19 under 914 m: 8 (2002)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 121 914 to 1,523 m: 28 under 914 m: 93 (2002)
Military Costa Rica
Military branches:
no regular indigenous military forces; Air Section, Ministry of
Public Forces (Fuerza Publica)
Military manpower - military age:
18 years of age (2003 est.)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15–49: 1,080,254 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15–49: 722,043 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 41,453 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: