The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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)

      Investment (gross fixed):

      24.3% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Budget:

      revenues: $7.01 billion expenditures: $9.464 billion (2007 est.)

      Fiscal year:

      1 July - 30 June

      Public debt:

      37.4% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      9.1% (2007 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      5% (31 December 2007)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      16% (31 December 2007)

      Stock of money:

      $8.444 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of quasi money:

      $32.4 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $40.15 billion (31 December 2007)

      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:

      22.78 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      21.37 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 93.7% hydro: 6.3% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      6,746 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      89,940 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      1,351 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      83,220 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      28 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      15.7 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      15.7 billion cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      141.6 billion cu m (1 January 2008 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%, Germany 13%, UK 9.1%, France 5.5%, Belgium 4% (2007)

      Imports:

      $16.67 billion (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement

      Imports - partners:

      China 15%, India 14.3%, Kuwait 8.3%, Singapore 6.2%, Hong Kong 4.2% (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)

      Currency code:

      BDT

      Exchange rates:

      taka (BDT) per US dollar - 69.893 (2007), 69.031 (2006), 64.328 (2005), 59.513 (2004), 58.15 (2003)

      Communications

       Bangladesh

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      1.187 million (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      34.37 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: inadequate for a modern country; fixed-line telephone density remains less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscribership has been increasing rapidly and is approaching 25 per 100 persons domestic: modernizing; introducing digital systems; trunk systems include VHF and UHF microwave radio relay links, and some fiber-optic cable in cities international: country code - 880; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-4 fiber-optic submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 6; international radiotelephone communications and landline service to neighboring countries (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM