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Honduras is usually read through remittances, apparel manufacturing exports, and the resilience of household demand, with external financing and inflation conditions shaping the margin for policy support. The cleanest read usually comes from remittance-backed consumption, export manufacturing demand, and whether inflation stays manageable enough for domestic credit to expand.
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Key facts
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Source: INE Honduras,
Country dashboard
A smaller Central American market where remittances, maquila exports, and domestic demand drive activity.
Macro explorer
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Honduras starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Available variables
Source: INE Honduras,
Trade and external position
The latest available data show exports of $12.4B and imports of $21.4B, leaving an external balance of −$8.9B. Services account for 30.1% of total exports.
This is the broadest external-demand read for Honduras, because it combines merchandise shipments with cross-border services such as travel, transport, finance, and business services.
This is the merchandise side of the export machine for Honduras, useful for judging industrial, energy, and manufacturing exposure in the trade mix.
This shows how much Honduras monetizes travel, logistics, finance, software, licensing, and other non-merchandise external flows.
Trade partners
Commodity lens
Trade in goods and services equaled 91.1% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 30.2% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 39.1% of merchandise exports in 2024.
Food exports accounted for 53.5% of merchandise exports in 2024, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Source: World Bank API: totalExports,
What to watch
Honduras should first be read through remittances. When this regime shifts, local how highly shares are valued and sector leadership usually shift with it.
The cleanest read usually comes from remittance-backed consumption, export manufacturing demand, and whether inflation stays manageable enough for domestic credit to expand. That makes manufacturing exports one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
The final layer is domestic demand, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable profits support for the Honduras Market Proxy.
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Real GDP growth
What This Signals
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 1.5%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.