GDP-real growth rate: 4.2% (1997 est.)
GDP-per capita: purchasing power parity-$1,370 (1997 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 40% industry: 21% services: 39% (1997 est.)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 7.5% (1997 est.)
Labor force: total: 10 million (1996 est.) by occupation: agriculture 81%, services 16%, industry 3% note: severe lack of skilled labor
Unemployment rate: NA%; substantial underemployment (1996)
Budget: revenues: $536 million expenditures: $818 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY96/97 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: 292,000 kW (1995)