Honduras
Country in Americas
CountryScope
In brief
Population: 11M (2025). World rank 86 of 216; in Americas, 15 of 46. Area: 112,492 km². World rank 104 of 249; in Americas, 18 of 56. GDP per person: $3,598 (2025). World rank 154 of 210 (1 = best); in Americas, 42 of 45. From 2015 to 2025: population 9.2M → 11M, GDP $21B → $39.6B, and GDP per person $2,271 → $3,598.
State
- Official name
- Republic of Honduras
- Local name
- Honduras
- Capital
- Tegucigalpa
- Region
- Americas
- Form of government
- Presidential republic
- UN member
- Yes
- Head of state
- Nasry Asfura
- Head of government
- Nasry Asfura
- Independence
- September 15, 1821
- Women in parliament
- 29.7% 2025
Key figures
- Population
- 11,005,850 2025
- Area
- 112,492 km²
- GDP
- $39.6B 2025
- GDP per person
- $3,598 2025
- Life expectancy
- 73 years 2024
Practical information
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Honduran Lempira (HNL)
- Time zones
- UTC−6
- Calling code
- +504
- Emergency numbers
- 198, 199
- Driving side
- Right
- Plug types
- A, B
- Mains voltage
- 110 V
Territory
- Sea access
- Has a coastline
- Coastline, km
- 823
- Neighbours
- Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua
- Agricultural land
- 28.5% 2024
Elevation
- Highest point
- Cerro Las Minas, 2,870 m
- Lowest point
- Caribbean Sea, 0 m
- Mean elevation, m
- 684
Climate
- Average temperature in the capital, °C
- 23
- Warmest month in the capital
- April, 26°C
- Coldest month in the capital
- November, 21°C
- Precipitation, mm per year
- 1,976 2022
Population and migration
- Population density
- 97.8 per km² 2025
- Population growth per year
- +1.7% 2025
- Living in cities
- 59.3% 2025
- Net migration per year
- -4.8K 2025
- Born in another country
- 0.4% 2024
Age and life expectancy
- Aged 0–14
- 30.3% 2025
- Aged 15–64
- 65.2% 2025
- Aged 65 and over
- 4.5% 2025
- Life expectancy, women
- 75.7 years 2024
- Life expectancy, men
- 70.5 years 2024
Births and deaths
- Children per woman
- 2.5 2024
- Births per 1,000 people
- 21.7 2024
- Deaths per 1,000 people
- 4.5 2024
Society
- Religions
- Protestant 55%, Catholic 33.4%, and no religion 10.1% (2023)
Quality of governance (100 = best)
- Rule of law, score 0–100
- 39.6 2025
- Control of corruption, score 0–100
- 22.9 2025
- Government effectiveness, score 0–100
- 40.4 2025
- Regulatory quality, score 0–100
- 44.6 2025
- Voice and accountability, score 0–100
- 46.8 2025
Size and growth
- GDP per person at purchasing power parity
- $7,871 2025
- GDP growth per year
- +3.8% 2025
Income and prices
- Income level (World Bank)
- Lower-middle income
- Gross national income per person
- $3,270 2025
- Inflation
- +4.6% 2025
- Price level, USA = 100
- 46 2025
Structure and jobs
- Agriculture, share of GDP
- 13.3% 2025
- Industry, share of GDP
- 25.4% 2025
- Services, share of GDP
- 57.6% 2025
- Unemployment
- 4.9% 2025
- Youth unemployment, ages 15–24
- 8.5% 2025
- Women in work or seeking work
- 39.6% 2025
Trade and finance
- Exports, share of GDP
- 35% 2025
- Imports, share of GDP
- 56.5% 2025
- Current account balance, share of GDP
- +2.5% 2025
- Foreign direct investment, share of GDP
- +2.7% 2025
- Remittances received, share of GDP
- 30.1% 2025
- Tax revenue, share of GDP
- 15.1% 2020
Poverty and inequality
- Gini index (0 = full equality)
- 45.7 2024
- Living on under $3 a day
- 15.7% 2024
Education
- Adult literacy
- 88.3% 2024
- Primary school enrolment
- 79% 2024
- Secondary school enrolment
- 51.8% 2024
- Higher education enrolment
- 23.3% 2024
- Public spending on education, share of GDP
- 4.6% 2023
Healthcare
- Health spending, share of GDP
- 7.7% 2023
- Health spending per person
- $249 2023
- Out-of-pocket health spending, share of total
- 53.1% 2023
- Doctors per 1,000 people
- 0.5 2020
- Nurses and midwives per 1,000 people
- 0.7 2023
- Hospital beds per 1,000 people
- 0.5 2023
- Children vaccinated against measles
- 79% 2024
Public health
- Infant deaths per 1,000 births
- 12.8 2024
- Deaths under age 5 per 1,000 births
- 15 2024
- Maternal deaths per 100,000 births
- 47 2023
- HIV prevalence, ages 15–49
- 0.2% 2024
- Diabetes prevalence, ages 20–79
- 5% 2024
- Overweight adults
- 63.8% 2022
- Adults who use tobacco
- 12.1% 2024
Living conditions
- Access to safe drinking water
- 95.7% 2024
- Access to basic sanitation
- 87.7% 2024
- Access to clean cooking fuels
- 57% 2024
Safety
- Homicides per 100,000 people
- 31.4 2023
- Road deaths per 100,000 people
- 16.1 2019
- Suicides per 100,000 people
- 3 2021
- Political stability and absence of violence, score 0–100
- 58 2025
- Natural hazards
- earthquakes, tropical cyclones, and floods
Air and emissions
- Air pollution PM2.5, µg/m³
- 30.7 2023
- CO₂ emissions, tonnes per person
- 1.1 2024
- All greenhouse gases, tonnes CO₂e per person
- 2.3 2024
Nature and water
- Forest cover
- 52.8% 2024
- Protected areas
- 11.1% 2025
- Renewable fresh water, m³ per person
- 8,664 2022
- Water stress, share of fresh water withdrawn
- 4.6% 2022
Internet and communications
- Using the internet
- 58.6% 2024
- Mobile subscriptions per 100 people
- 71 2024
- Home broadband per 100 people
- 4.6 2024
- Internet domain
- .hn
Energy
- Access to electricity
- 95.5% 2024
- Electricity use, kWh per person
- 816 2024
- Renewable share of energy use
- 45.9% 2021
- Electricity from renewables
- 64.9% 2021
- Electricity from fossil fuels
- 47.6% 2024
Transport
- Air passengers per year
- 428,443 2023
- Airports
- 129 2025
- Railways, km
- 699 2014
Science and innovation
- Research spending, share of GDP
- 0.1% 2019
- Researchers per million people
- 188 2019
- Scientific articles per year
- 130 2023
- Patent applications by residents
- 8 2018
- High-tech share of manufactured exports
- 3.9% 2024