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<text id=93CT1101>
<title>
Panama--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Panama
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: GDP expanded by roughly 8% in 1992, following growth
of 9.3% in 1991. The economy thus continues to recover from the
crisis that preceded the ouster of Manuel NORIEGA, even though
the government's structural adjustment program has been hampered
by a lack of popular support and a passive administration.
Public investment has been limited as the administration has
kept the fiscal deficit below 3% of GDP. Unemployment and
economic reform are the two major issues the government must
face in 1993-94.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $6 billion
(1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 8% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $2,400 (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.8% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 15% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $1.8 billion; expenditures $1.9 billion,
including capital expenditures of $200 million (1992 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $486 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: bananas 43%, shrimp 11%, sugar 4%, clothing 5%,
coffee 2%</l>
<l> partners: US 38%, Central America and Caribbean, EC (1992
est.)</l>
<l>Imports: $2.0 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: capital goods 21%, crude oil 11%, foodstuffs
9%, consumer goods, chemicals</l>
<l> partners: US 36%, Japan, EC, Central America and Caribbean,
Mexico, Venezuela (1992 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $5.2 billion (year-end 1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 7.6% (1992 est.); accounts
for about 9% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 1,584,000 kW capacity; 4,360 billion kWh
produced, 1,720 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: manufacturing and construction activities,
petroleum refining, brewing, cement and other construction
material, sugar milling
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 10.5% of GDP (1992 est.), 27% of
labor force (1992); crops - bananas, rice, corn, coffee,
sugarcane; livestock; fishing; importer of food grain,
vegetables
</p>
<p>Illicit drugs: major cocaine transshipment point and drug
money laundering center
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $516
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $582 million; Communist countries
(1970-89), $4 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 balboa (B)=100 centesimos
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: balboas (B) per US$1 - 1.000 (fixed rate)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>