| GDP - purchasing power parity |
$187 billion (1999 est.) |
| GDP - real growth rate |
5.2% (1999 est.) |
| GDP - per capita-purchasing power parity |
$1,470 (1999 est.) |
| GDP - composition by sector |
agriculture: 30%
industry: 17%
services: 53% (1999 est.) |
| Population below poverty line |
35.6% (FY95/96 est.) |
Household income or consumption by
percentage share |
lowest 10%: 4.1%
highest 10%: 23.7% (1992) |
| Inflation rate (consumer prices) |
9% (FY98/99 est.) |
| Labor force |
56 million (1995-96)
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia, and Singapore |
| Labor force - by occupation |
agriculture 63%, services 26%, industry 11% (FY95/96) |
| Unemployment rate |
35.2% (1996) |
| Budget |
revenues: $4.3 billion
expenditures: $6.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997) |
| Industries |
cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper, newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar |
| Industrial production growth rate |
2.5% (1997 est.) |
| Electricity - production |
12.5 billion kWh (1999 est.) |
| Electricity - production by source |
fossil fuel: 98%
hydro: 2%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1999) |
| Electricity - consumption |
11.039 billion kWh (1998) |
| Agriculture - products |
rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes; beef, milk, poultry, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit |
| Exports |
$5.1 billion (1998) |
| Exports - commodities |
garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood |
| Exports - partners |
US 33%, Germany 10%, UK 9%, France 6%, Italy 5% (1997) |
| Imports |
$8.01 billion (1998) |
| Imports - commodities |
machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, raw cotton, food, crude oil and petroleum products, cement |
| Imports - partners |
India 12%, China 9%, Japan 7%, Hong Kong 6%, South Korea 6% (1997) |
| Currency |
1 taka (Tk) = 100 paisa |
| Exchange rates |
taka (Tk) per US$1 - 51.000 (January 2000), 49.085 (1999), 46.906 (1998), 43.892 (1997), 41.794 (1996), 40.278 (1995) |
| Fiscal year |
1 July - 30 June |
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