| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $258.8 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
5.3% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $1,900 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 21.7%
industry: 26.6%
services: 51.7% (2003 est.) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
35.6% (FY95/96 est.) |
| Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : |
lowest 10%: 3.9%
highest 10%: 28.6% (1995-96 est.) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
5.6% (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
64.02 million
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion in 1998-99 (2003) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
agriculture 63%, industry 11%, services 26% (FY95/96) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $5.352 billion
expenditures: $7.55 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2003) |
| Industries : |
cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
1.9% (2003 est.) |
| Electricity - Production : |
15.33 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 93.7%
hydro: 6.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
14.25 billion kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry |
| Exports : |
$6.713 billion (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood (2001) |
| Exports - Partners : |
US 23.8%, Germany 13.7%, UK 10%, France 5.8% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$9.459 billion (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement (2000) |
| Imports - Partners : |
India 15.6%, China 13.6%, Singapore 9.5%, Japan 6%, Hong Kong 4.9% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$18.06 billion (2003) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
$1.575 billion (2000 est.) |
| Currency : |
taka (BDT) |
| Currency Code : |
BDT |
| Exchange Rates : |
taka per US dollar - 58.15 (2003), 57.888 (2002), 55.8067 (2001), 52.1417 (2000), 49.0854 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
1 July - 30 June |
