Honduras

  • Area: 112,492 square kilometres
  • Currency: Lempira made up of 100 centavos, $1 = 19.1365 lempiras (at 4 October 2007)
  • Official language: Spanish
  • Population: 8,045,990
  • Head of State or Government: Porfirio Lobo Sosa President 2010
  • GDP: USD $14,316
  • GDP per capita: USD $4,175.285
  • GDP growth: 1.91%
  • Inflation: 4.0%

About Honduras

The Republic of Honduras in Central America is bordered by Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua and has a long Caribbean coastline and a small outlet to the Pacific. The capital is Tegucigalpa. Bananas and coffee together account for just over half of export earnings and the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector employs approximately 43 per cent of the workforce and contributes a quarter of GDP.

Industry employs a fifth of the workforce and contributes 29 per cent of GDP, while the services sector employs 37 per cent of the workforce and contributes 46 per cent of GDP.