Labor force: 314.751 million (1990) by occupation: agriculture 65% (1993 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $36.5 billion
expenditures: $54.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $11.4
billion (FY94/95)
Industries: textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel,
transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery
Industrial production growth rate: 10% (1995 est.)
Electricity:
capacity: 81,200,000 kW (March 1995)
production: 314 billion kWh (1993)
consumption per capita: 324 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane,
potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish catch
of about 3 million metric tons ranks India among the world's top 10
fishing nations
Illicit drugs: licit producer of opium for the pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; major transit country for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries; illicit producer of hashish and methaqualone; produced 70 metric tons of illicit opium in 1995
Exports: $29.96 billion (f.o.b., 1995)
commodities: clothing, gems and jewelry, engineering goods,
chemicals, leather manufactures, cotton yarn, and fabric
partners: US, Japan, Germany, UK, Hong Kong
Imports: $33.5 billion (c.i.f., 1995)
commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, machinery, gems,
fertilizer, chemicals
partners: US, Germany, Saudi Arabia, UK, Belgium, Japan