Industries: textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel,
transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery
Industrial production growth rate: 5.5% (1997)
Electricity—production: 404.475 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 80.35% hydro: 17.8% nuclear: 1.83% other: 0.02% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 406.02 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 130 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 1.675 billion kWh (1996)
Agriculture—products: rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish
Exports: $32.17 billion (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports—commodities: textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering
goods, chemicals, leather manufactures