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It is not different from those characteristics showed by developing countries. The Gross National Product experimented a constant 8% increase yearly up to 1995.From its active population, only 45% is engaged to the agriculture and cattle, the total Economically Active Population is 9,972,913 people followed by the manufacturing industry and commercial stores which represent the 11.6% and 13.3% respectively out of the total E.A.P. It is believed that food production will provide to feed only 60% of the population, the deficit is covered by imported foods. The commercial balance shows a positive annual variation of 20.4% up to 1995 being the main exportation items the fish, cottom, sugar and coffee, and regarding minerals which are the main source of holdings, copper, iron, refined silver, lead, zinc and petroleum. |
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