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Economy - overview: |
The economy has grown 5-6% over the past few years despite inefficient state-owned enterprises, delays in exploiting natural gas resources, insufficient power supplies, and slow implementation of economic reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than half of GDP is generated through the service sector, nearly two-thirds of Bangladeshis are employed in the agriculture sector, with rice as the single-most-important product. Garment exports and remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, mainly in the Middle East and East Asia, fuel economic growth. |
GDP (purchasing power parity): |
$208.3 billion (2007 est.) |
GDP (official exchange rate): |
$72.42 billion (2007 est.) |
GDP - real growth rate: |
6.3% (2007 est.) |
GDP - per capita (PPP): |
$1,400 (2007 est.) |
GDP - composition by sector: |
agriculture: 19% industry: 28.7% services: 52.3% (2007 est.) |
Labor force: |
69.4 million note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $4.8 billion in 2005-06. (2007 est.) |
Labor force - by occupation: |
agriculture: 63% industry: 11% services: 26% (FY95/96) |
Unemployment rate: |
2.5% (includes underemployment) (2007 est.) |
Population below poverty line: |
45% (2004 est.) |
Household income or consumption by percentage share: |
lowest 10%: 3.7% highest 10%: 27.9% (2000) |
Distribution of family income - Gini index: |
33.4 (2000) |
Inflation rate (consumer prices): |
9.1% (2007 est.) |
Investment (gross fixed): |
24.3% of GDP (2007 est.) |
Budget: |
revenues: $7.01 billion expenditures: $9.464 billion (2007 est.) |
Public debt: |
37.4% of GDP (2007 est.) |
Agriculture - products: |
rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry |
Industries: |
cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar |
Industrial production growth rate: |
8.4% (2007 est.) |
Electricity - production: |
21.35 billion kWh (2005) |
Electricity - consumption: |
19.49 billion kWh (2005) |
Electricity - exports: |
0 kWh (2005) |
Electricity - imports: |
0 kWh (2005) |
Oil - production: |
6,746 bbl/day (2005) |
Oil - consumption: |
86,000 bbl/day (2005 est.) |
Oil - exports: |
1,100 bbl/day (2004) |
Oil - imports: |
81,010 bbl/day (2004) |
Oil - proved reserves: |
28 million bbl (1 January 2006 est.) |
Natural gas - production: |
13.43 billion cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - consumption: |
13.43 billion cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - exports: |
0 cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - imports: |
0 cu m (2005) |
Natural gas - proved reserves: |
135.8 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.) |
Current account balance: |
$804.7 million (2007 est.) |
Exports: |
$12.45 billion (2007 est.) |
Exports - commodities: |
garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood |
Exports - partners: |
US 23.8%, Germany 12.1%, UK 10.1%, France 5% (2007) |
Imports: |
$16.67 billion (2007 est.) |
Imports - commodities: |
machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement |
Imports - partners: |
China 17.6%, India 13.3%, Kuwait 8.2%, Singapore 4.9% (2007) |
Economic aid - recipient: |
$1.321 billion (2005) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: |
$5.278 billion (31 December 2007 est.) |
Debt - external: |
$21.23 billion (31 December 2007 est.) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: |
$4.971 billion (2007 est.) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: |
$104 million (2007 est.) |
Market value of publicly traded shares: |
$3.61 billion (2006) |
Currency (code): |
taka (BDT) |
Exchange rates: |
taka per US dollar - 69.893 (2007), 69.031 (2006), 64.328 (2005), 59.513 (2004), 58.15 (2003) |
Fiscal year: |
1 July - 30 June |
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