GDP: purchasing power parity - $59.4 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 4.6% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,200 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
59%
industry:
11%
services:
30% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line: 23% (1997 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 38% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 19.7 million (FY98/99 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 65%, industry 10%, services 25% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 7.1% (official FY97/98 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$7.9 billion
expenditures:
$12.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $5.7 billion (FY96/97)
Industries: agricultural processing; textiles and footwear; wood and wood products; copper, tin, tungsten, iron; construction materials; pharmaceuticals; fertilizer
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - production: 4.31 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
61.72%
hydro:
38.28%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 4.008 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: paddy rice, corn, oilseed, sugarcane, pulses; hardwood
Exports: $1.2 billion (1998)
Exports - commodities: pulses and beans, prawns, fish, rice; teak, opiates
Exports - partners: India 13%, China 11%, Singapore 10%, Thailand 8% (1998)
Imports: $2.5 billion (1998)
Imports - commodities: machinery, transport equipment, construction materials, food products
Imports - partners: Singapore 31%, Japan 12%, Thailand 12%, China 9%, Malaysia 8% (1998)
Debt - external: $5.9 billion (FY98/99 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $99 million (FY98/99)
Currency: 1 kyat (K) = 100 pyas
Exchange rates: kyats (K) per US$1 - official rate - 6.2665 (January 2000), 6.2858 (1999), 6.3432 (1998), 6.2418 (1997), 5.9176 (1996), 5.6670 (1995); kyats (K) per US$1 - market exchange rate - 330 (yearend 1999)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March