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HONDURAS (Continued) Exports: $835 million (f.o.b., 1980); bananas, coffee, lumber, meat, petroleum products

Imports: $1,019 million (c.i.f., 1980); manufactured products, machinery, transportation equipment, chemicals, petroleum

Major trade partners: exports—50% US, 9% CACM, 18% West Germany (1977); imports—43% US, 6% Venezuela, 12% CACM, 11% Japan, 4% West Germany (1977)

Aid: economic commitments—US, including Ex-Im, (FY70-80), $260 million loans; other Western (non-US) countries, ODA and ODF, (1970-79), $90.0 million; military-assistance from US (FY79-80), $23 million

Budget: (1980) expenditures $448 million, revenues $379 million

Monetary conversion rate: 2 lempiras=US$1 (official)

Fiscal year: calendar year

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 751 km total; 293 km 1.067-meter gauge, 458 km 0.914-meter gauge

Highways: 8,950 km total; 1,700 km paved, 5,000 km otherwise improved, 2,250 km unimproved earth

Inland waterways: 1,200 km navigable by small craft

Ports: 5 major (Puerto Cortes, La Ceiba, Tela, San Lorenzo, Puerto Castilla), 3 minor

Civil air: 14 major transport aircraft, including 1 leased in

Airfields: 217 total, 213 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 6 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: improved, but still inadequate; connection into Central American microwave net; 20,000 telephones (0.5 per 100 popl.); 104 AM, 12 FM, and 7 TV stations

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 874,000; 521,000 fit for military service; about 44,000 reach military age (18) annually

Military budget: proposed for fiscal year ending 31 December 1981, $45.2 million; about 6.7% of central government budget (includes the armed forces and other military) 

LAND
1,036 km$2$; 14% arable, 10% forested, 76% other (mainly grass, shrub, steep hill country)

Land boundaries: 24 km

WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 3 nm

Coastline: 733 km

PEOPLE
Population: 5,272,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.3%

Nationality: adjective—Hong Kong

Ethnic divisions: 98% Chinese, 2% other

Religion: 10% Christian, 90% eclectic mixture of local religions

Language: Chinese, English

Literacy: 75%

Labor force (1976 Census): 1.87 million; 45.3% manufacturing, 18.6% services, 6.0% construction, mining, quarrying and utilities, 19.4% commerce, 2.6% agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and hunting, 7.3% communications, 0.8% other; est. unemployment 3.0%, underemployment is a serious problem

Organized labor: 21% of 1976 labor force

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Hong Kong

Type: British colony

Capital: None

Political subdivisions: Hong Kong, Kowloon, and New Territories

Legal system: English common law

Branches: Governor assisted by advisory Executive Council; he legislates with advice and consent of Legislative Council; Urban Council which alone includes elected  100