Inflation rate - consumer price index: 9.2% (1996 est.)
Labor force: total: 9.2 million (1996 est.) by occupation: agriculture 90%, services 7%, industry 3% note : severe lack of skilled labor
Unemployment rate: NA%; substantial underemployment (1996)
Budget: revenues: $645 million expenditures: $1.05 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY94/95 est.)
Industries: tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarette; cement and brick production
Industrial production growth rate: 14.7% (FY94/95 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 280,000 kW 000 kW
Electricity - production: 980 million kWh
Electricity - consumption per capita: 48 kWh (1996 est.)
Agriculture - products: rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat