Economy of bangladesh 2001

	GDP: purchasing power parity - $230 billion (2001 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 5.6% (2001 est.) GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,750 (2001 est.) GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 30% industry: 18% services: 52% (2000 est.) Population below poverty line: 36% Household income or consumption by percentage share: owest 10%: 4% highest 10%: 29% Distribution of family income - Gini index: 34 (1995-96 ) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.8% (2000 est.) Labor force: 64.1 million (1998) note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion in 1998-99 (1998) Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 63%, services 26%, industry 11% (FY95/96) Unemployment rate: 35% (2001 est.) Budget: revenues: $4.9 billion expenditures: $6.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY99/00 est.) Industries: cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar Industrial production growth rate: 6.2% (2001 est.) Electricity - production: 13.493 billion kWh (2000) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 92% hydro: 8% other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0% Electricity - consumption: 12.548 billion kWh (2000) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000) Agriculture - products: rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry Exports: $6.6 billion (2001) Exports - commodities: garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood Exports - partners: US 31.8%, Germany 10.9%, UK 7.9%, France 5.2%, Netherlands 5.2%, Italy 4.42% (2000) Imports: $8.7 billion (2001) Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, raw cotton, food, crude oil and petroleum products, cement Imports - partners: India 10.5%, EU 9.5%, Japan 9.5%, Singapore 8.5%, China 7.4% (2000) Debt - external: $17 billion (2000) (2000) Economic aid - recipient: $1.575 billion Currency: taka (BDT) Currency code: BDT Exchange rates: taka per US dollar - 57.756 (January 2002), 55.807 (2001), 52.142 (2000), 49.085 (1999), 46.906 (1998), 43.892 (1997) Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June