ACOG - Honduras  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Nicaragua

Area:
total area: 112,090 sq km
land area: 111,890 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Tennessee

Land boundaries: total 1,520 km, Guatemala 256 km, El Salvador 342 km, Nicaragua 922km

Coastline: 820 km


People

Population: 5,459,743 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 43% (female 1,159,846; male 1,201,927)
15-64 years: 53% (female 1,468,950; male 1,444,959)
65 years and over: 4% (female 95,361; male 88,700)

Population growth rate: 2.66% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 34.12 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -1.56 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 43.4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.04 years
male: 65.64 years
female: 70.55 years

Total fertility rate: 4.55 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mestizo (mixed Indian and European) 90%, Indian 7%, black 2%, white1%

Religions: Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant minority

Languages: Spanish, Indian dialects

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 73%
male: 76%
female: 71%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Honduras
conventional short form: Honduras

Type: republic

Capital: Tegucigalpa

Independence: 15 September 1821 (from Spain)

Constitution: 11 January 1982, effective 20 January 1982


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $9.7 billion

National product real growth rate: -1.9%

National product per capita: $1,820

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 30%

Unemployment rate: 10%; underemployed 30%-40%

Electricity:
capacity: 290,000 kW
production: 2.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 445 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Games involved a crew of 2,100 who worked with more than 3,500 performers as well as thousands of athletes who celebrated on the field of Olympic Stadium.