entary strength to push through needed reforms, but the
party's political will to do so has been lacking in key areas. On an
encouraging note, growth has been a steady 5-6% for the past several
years.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$330.8 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$69.02 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
6.1% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,200 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 19.9%
industry: 20.6%
services: 59.5% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
68 million
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman,
Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion
in 1998-99 (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 63%
industry: 11%
services: 26% (FY95/96)

Unemployment rate:
2.5% (includes underemployment) (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
45% (2004 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.9%
highest 10%: 28.6% (1995-96 est.)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
31.8 (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7.2% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
24.9% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $6.389 billion
expenditures: $8.694 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
46.7% of GDP (2006 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:
7.2% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
18.09 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 93.7%
hydro: 6.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
16.82 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
6,813 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
85,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
28.45 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
13.1 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
13.1 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports: