Togo and Honduras Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Honduras
Leader
President: Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema	President: Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Population
6,961,049	8,296,693
Life Expectancy
63.170 years	70.710 years
Capital City
	Tegucigalpa
Largest city
Lome (population: 749,700)	Tegucigalpa (population: 850,848)
Human Development Index
0.479	0.714
GDP per capita
	$4,400 US
Literacy Rate
60.9%	80%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7	2.6
Percentage of Women in Parliament
11.1%	23.4%
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
	4.800%
Death Penalty
Abolished in practice	Abolished

Political System
republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule	democratic constitutional republic
Independence date
	15 September 1821 (from Spain)
Religions
Christian 29%, Muslim 20%, indigenous beliefs 51%	Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%
Languages
French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)	Spanish, Amerindian dialects
Exports
	coffee, shrimp, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber
External Debt
	$4,564,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
	lempiras (HNL) per US dollar - 18.983 (2008 est.), 18.9 (2007), 18.895 (2006), 18.92 (2005), 18.206 (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
	0.600%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
1	0
Location
Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Benin, between Benin and Ghana	Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua
Area
56,785 km sq	112,090 km sq
Coastline
56 km	820 km
Climate
tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north	subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains

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