GDP: purchasing power parity - $7 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5.2% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,300 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
51%
industry:
22%
services:
27% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line: 46.1% (1993 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.2%
highest 10%:
26.4% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 140% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 1 million - 1.5 million
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 80% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate: 5.7% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$202.7 million
expenditures:
$385.1 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY97/98 est.)
Industries: tin and gypsum? mining, timber, electric power, agricultural processing, construction, garments
Industrial production growth rate: 7.5% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 1.34 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
2.99%
hydro:
97.01%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 514 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 782 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 50 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: sweet potatoes, vegetable?s, corn, coffee, sugarcane?, tobacco, cotton?; tea, peanuts?, rice?; [water buffalo]?, pig?s, cattle, poultry
Exports: $271 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: wood products, garments?, electricity, coffee, tin
Exports - partners: Vietnam, Thailand, Germany, France, Belgium
Imports: $497 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel
Imports - partners: Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Hong Kong
Debt - external: $2.32 billion (1997 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $345 million (1999 est.)
Currency: 1 new kip? (NK) = 100 at
Exchange rates:
new kips (NK) per US$1 - 7,674.00 (January 2000),7,102.03 (1999), 3,298.33 (1998), 1,259.98 (1997), 921.02 (1996), 804.69 (1995)
note:
as of September 1995, a floating exchange rate policy was adopted
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September