From tank!ncar!boulder!spot!wiener Fri Feb 2 22:13:57 CST 1990 Article 661 of soc.culture.latin-america: Path: tank!ncar!boulder!spot!wiener >From: wiener@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WIENER ERIK D) Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america Subject: El Salvador Fact Sheet Message-ID: <16332@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 30 Jan 90 06:47:59 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: wiener@spot.Colorado.EDU (WIENER ERIK D) Distribution: na Organization: CISPES, University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 61 Here is a (slightly out of date) fact sheet on El Salvador: EL SALVADOR FACT SHEET ---------------------- Population: 5.5 million 1 million refugees, most in the United States 600,000 displaced within El Salvador 70,000 civilians killed and 7,000 disappeared since 1979 Labor Force: 2.2 million 1.4 million working Salvadorans earn minimum wage or below Unemployment: 32.5%, underemployment: 44% Income Annual per capita income: $700 Minimum daily wage: $3.60 for urban workers, $2.00 for rural workers 66% of the population cannot meet basic needs Housing 63% of the population lives in below standard housing Housing deficit estimated at 700,000 units Social Average daily consumption is 1,806 calories (2,260 recommended) 650,000 school age children do not attend school One out of every four children is malnourished 25 percent of children die before the age of five Infant mortality is 91 per 1,000, the highest in Central America 2.9 physicians per 10,000 people Average life span of industrial workers and peasents is 40 years Economy Gross National Product: $4 billion Inflation is 25%, up from 16% in 1979 Exports fell from $1,132 million in 1979 to $580 million in 1987 Coffee exports: $685 million in 1979, $332 million in 1988 Cotton exports: $87 million in 1979, $5.2 million in 1988 Sugar exports: $27 million in 1979, $14 million in 1988 Imports rose from $955 million in 1979 to $985 million in 1987 Foreign debt grew from $939 million in 1979 to $2.3 billion in 1987 Defense spending as part of the national budget increased from 14% in 1980 to 28% in 1988 U.S. aid $3.3 billion since 1980 $3 of U.S. aid devoted to the war for every $1 used to address its root causes El Salvador is the fifth largest recipient of U.S. aid in the world and the first in Central America Source: Washington Center for Central American Studies P.O. Box 7248, Silver Spring, Maryland 20907 February 20, 1989 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Wiener, wiener@spot.colorado.edu U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador CISPES, Boulder, Colorado -------------------------------------------------------------------------