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
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