GDP: purchasing power parity - $1.805 trillion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,800 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
25%
industry:
30%
services:
45% (1997)
Population below poverty line: 35% (1994 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.1%
highest 10%:
25% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.7% (1999 est.)
Labor force: NA
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 67%, services 18%, industry 15% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$35.8 billion
expenditures:
$66.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $15.9 billion (FY98/99 est.)
Industries: textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery
Industrial production growth rate: 6% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 448.6 billion kWh (FY98/99 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
80.34%
hydro:
17.08%
nuclear:
2.38%
other:
0.2% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 416.346 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 130 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 1.575 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish
Exports: $36.3 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
Exports - partners: US 21%, UK 6%, Germany 6%, Hong Kong 5%, Japan 5%, UAE 4% (1998)
Imports: $50.2 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
Imports - partners: US 10%, Belgium 7%, UK 6%, Germany 6%, Saudi Arabia 6%, Japan 6% (1998)
Debt - external: $98 billion (March 1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $2.9 billion (FY98/99)
Currency: 1 Indian rupee (Re) = 100 paise
Exchange rates: Indian rupees (Rs) per US$1 - 43.552 (January 2000), 43.055 (1999), 41.259 (1998), 36.313 (1997), 35.433 (1996), 32.427 (1995)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March