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Currently the production of the information is the responsibility of the National Comptroller's Office, which does not have sufficient resources to cope.
Edith Catillo Durate, in her article for Prensa.com, writes that, “Macroeconomic information is currently available up to May although some segments are subject to longer delays”.
Some analysts have suggested that a Geography and Statistics Institute be created with the specific remit of collecting, processing, analyzing and distributing socio-economic information.
Source: Prensa.com
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April 2009
You can find data on national accounts, inflation, unemployment, payment balance, fiscal indicators, international trade and raw material prices.
The IMF published a series of selected macroeconomic data and raw material prices by country and region, with a two year projection, as part of the statistical appendix to the biannual report on global economic prospects.
October 2011
Main conclusions regarding the Central American economy between 2008 and 2011.
The State of the Region Report is a tool by Central America for Central America, which analyzes and tracks the major challenges of sustainable human development. In this fourth report, the titles of the main conclusions on the topic Economy are presented:
May 2010
CEPAL published statistics on Central America’s energy sector up to 2009.
Electric energy production reached 39.114 GWh for the six Central American countries, 0.1% less than 2008. This is due to less energy consumption caused by economic deceleration. Energy consumption dropped in El Salvador (-3%), Honduras (-1.3%) and Costa Rica (-1%), while it increased in Panama (7.3%), Nicaragua (4.3%) and Guatemala (1%).
October 2008
Fuel is most expensive in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and cheapest in Panama.
This is one of the data presented in the recent Cepal report: "The Central American Isthmus: Hydrocarbon Statistics 2007."
The report makes a general conclusion for region on cost of fuel in the region regarding the total commercial balance. In 2006, the import of Hydrocarbons represented 15.5% of exports, while in 2007 this figure was at 17.1%.
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