Poor social and economic conditions plague a large share of Hondurans: In 2013, 64.5% of Hondurans were living in poverty, according to the World Bank.
The Honduran economy is heavily dependent on money sent home from migrants: In 2012, 15.7% of Honduras's GDP ($3 billion) came from remittances - the vast majority of which were US-based, according to Pew Research analysis of World Bank data.