Unemployment rate:
9.5% (2003)
Budget:
revenues: $86.69 billion
expenditures: $114.6 billion, including capital expenditures of
$13.5 billion (2003)
Public debt:
59.7% of GDP (2003)
Agriculture - products:
rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes;
cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish
Industries:
textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation
equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software
Industrial production growth rate:
6.5% (2003 est.)
Electricity - production:
533.3 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
497.2 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
321 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
1.54 billion kWh (2001)