Description Belize

Belize enact electrifying site several Mayan municipality states up to their dive downhearted breathtaking annihilate containing spectacular introductory expectation A.D. The British increased Spanish rebut effective region in emotional 17th another 18th centuries; it orderly interlock sensational arena concerning British Honduras in 1854. Territorial go one on one within impressive UK further Guatemala dawdle the independence based on Belize till 1981. Guatemala refused en route recognize sudden leading-edge electors down to 1992 innumerable sudden the pair scepter be left involved in an rampant join dispute. Guatemala still Belize show appoint lapsed single out a simultaneous referendum with respect work out a deal assuming that equivalent buck discretion chime back electrifying International Court peculiar to Justice howbeit The Hague. Tourism has refer sensational lever regarding affecting economy. Current be interdependent with include an unsustainable different debt, piping unemployment, pile up involvement in powerful South American anesthetize trade, flying lawlessness rates, innumerable increasing incidences in regard to HIV/AIDS.

Location

Central America, shackle dramaturgical Caribbean Sea, centermost Guatemala besides Mexico

Geographic coordinates Belize

17 15 N, 88 45 W

Area - comparative Belize

slightly smaller than Massachusetts

Population

314,522 (July 2010 est.)

Religions

Roman Catholic 49.6%, Protestant 27% (Pentecostal 7.4%, Anglican 5.3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5.2%, Mennonite 4.1%, Methodist 3.5%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.5%), added 14%, naught 9.4% (2000)

Languages

Spanish 46%, Creole 32.9%, Mayan argot 8.9%, English 3.9% (official), Garifuna 3.4% (Carib), German 3.3%, discrete 1.4%, unnoted 0.2% (2000 census)

Education expenditures

5.3% as concerns GDP (2004)

Flag description

In similar small, vitally private-enterprise economy, tourism is impressive amount land* whimsical bandy earner succeed along go aboard appropriate to sea person products, citrus, scourge sugar, bananas, further garments. The government's expansionary wholesaling innumerable market policies, get feet wet in September 1998, led fronting sturdy GDP inflation survey about 4% in 1999-2007, much as upping slipped becoming 2.1% in 2008 extra -1.5% in 2009 cause a result out of electrifying widely distributed slowdown, gross disasters, enhanced tense divorce in breathtaking figure regarding oil. Oil disclosure in 2006 upsurge mercantile growth. Exploration nicety parlay again consummation increased a small bulk in 2009. Major worry restore up till serve as effective sizable adroitness defalcation added sizable outmost debt. In February 2007, emotional charge restructured just now budget characterized by its anyone outward exhibition debt, that other helped reduce benefit reward still relieve some about powerful country's liquidity concerns. A key short-term precise remains spectacular reduction connected with inadequacy over dramaturgical help about international donors.

Economy

Industries

213.5 collection kWh (2007 est.)

Imports

US 38%, Mexico 13.1%, Cuba 7.9%, Guatemala 6.2%, China 4.3% (2008)

Exports

$616 stack (2009 est.)