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)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1999)
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)
Debt - external: $16.5 billion (1998)
Economic aid - recipient: $1.475 billion (FY96/97)
Currency: 1 taka (Tk) = 100 poisha
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